WONDERED (ABOUT) Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

wondered (about)

verb

past tense of wonder (about)

as in disagreed (with)

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The long delay before Davis was charged did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability, DiGiacomo said.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026
Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of doubted

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Minority interests in illiquid companies are typically discounted by 20% to 35%, according to Jordana Schreiber, partner at Day Pitney.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
At the top of the heap is the best value, the All-In plan, normally $70 a month but discounted to just $50 with a voice line and AutoPay (plus taxes and fees).

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026

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No agents died in the real-life incident, and whether Good’s car ever posed a threat to her killer, Jonathan Ross, remains widely disputed.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
Guilfoyle's team publicly disputed the authenticity of text messages Deters shared with multiple news outlets, including CBS News.

— Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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