Thesaurus results for SEEMED

seemed

verb

past tense of seem

as in looked

to give the impression of being I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed

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Recent Examples of seemed A week ago, a call between the US president and his Russian counterpart seemed to be about an urgent clarification over a possible outbreak of plague in Siberia. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 The trade-deadline blockbusters and late-night deals all seemed at the time like the Sixers were swinging for the fences. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 What shocked him was how unregulated—and unsophisticated—the rental market seemed. — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 To DuBose, who knew professional football players, that constant display of team merchandise seemed unusual. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Nobody cheered; after so many years of violence, the crowd seemed numb. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026 Navarrette landed the part, her first leading role in a film, which seemed like the biggest thing that could possibly happen for her. — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026 On Wednesday, the evening before they were set to dock, the mood seemed far more jovial aboard the ship; sailors were chatting and laughing, some were running a 5K around a deck now free of aircraft. — Mosheh Gains, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2026 Deutsche Bank research analyst Adam Cochrane seemed to agree at the time. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026

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The event featured high-flying stunts, air-pumping cold thrusters, and a driverless demonstration that looked straight out of a sci-fi movie.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Earlier versions looked unnaturally green, while the team also considered how the character’s skin would react to different lighting.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of looked

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Hannity, a close confidant of the president, sounded unimpressed with her press briefing performance and her answers on Thursday night.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
For several years, people in custody, advocates and local media have sounded the alarm about the dangers posed by extreme temperatures in Pennsylvania’s state prisons.

— Jaquelyn Jahn, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of sounded

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In September, every ward in Sylhet's 100-bed Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, which is treating measles, appeared overwhelmed.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
The migration of working-class and Hispanic voters toward Trump in 2024, which now appeared to be swinging back to the Democrats in the midterms, suggested an underlying instability.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

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