stamped

verb

past tense of stamp
1
as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily stamping around in oversized boots

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2
as in stomped
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure stamped the grass down in a circle

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Recent Examples of stamped Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple. — Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 The rest of the Soviet delegation stamped their feet, and even Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko removed and timidly tapped his shoe in solidarity. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026 The community nurse hadn’t even bothered to rewrite it, and the polite doctor simply stamped under her amendments. — Alicja Turczyk, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026 Drivers sometimes made their own, carved from wood, stamped onto metal, the numbers mounted on screens, or painted onto boards. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Comme des Garçons kicked things off by releasing two versions of the sneaker with premium leather, patent leather extending from the mudguard to the midsole and its branding stamped onto the shoe’s lateral side. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026 As tales of touring and recording with Diddy in other episodes fail to lead to a query about what the Bad Boy founder has been up to since 2024, the doc feels time-stamped and a few considerably eventful years old for the people who come up. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026 There was nothing that had escaped being stamped with the Festival’s ubiquitous emblem–sweets, cigarettes, perfume, even sandals–Specially designed to keep you cool and smartly shod for fun-loving Festival walking! — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026 Shaffer believes life's experiences shouldn't be stamped with expiration dates. — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stamped
  1. shuffled
  2. stomped
  3. stumbled
Verb
  • Uribe shuffled off the mound, and the crowd at American Family Field roared.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Kering is starting to clean house, having already shuffled creative directors at Gucci, Balenciaga and Bottega Veneta.
    — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffled
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  • McColley pushed Parente out onto the street and stomped his boot in the victim’s face five times, crushing Parente’s head into the pavement before fleecing his pockets and fleeing, according to the criminal complaint.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.
    — Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of stomped
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  • Drew Rasmussen squandered a two-run lead on the mound, Tampa Bay's bullpen let the game get away and the Rays stumbled to a 7-3 loss against the Cleveland Guardians in their American League Championship Series opener Monday night.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Kore-eda stumbled on the manga in a bookshop rather than through its serial run.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stumbled

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“Stamped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stamped. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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