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past tense of donate

donated

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adjective

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Recent Examples of donated
Verb
The men’s golf club also joined in, spreading the word and encouraging contributions for a chance to win the donated driver. News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025 The organization is staffed by volunteers who repair donated cars so they can be safely gifted to those in need. Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 The donated toys, treats and supplies help give these animals time outside and socialization. Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025 These visitor visas are the pathway for Palestinians to come to the United States temporarily for medical treatment, including three children who arrived in the Bay Area earlier this month for donated treatment for injuries suffered in the Israel-Hamas war. Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The interviewer then noted that Kirson later apologized and donated her profits from the festival to an unspecified human rights organization, and that the festival required comedians not to criticize the Saudi government. James Factora, Them., 28 Oct. 2025 In recent years, Gates has focused on the goals of his Gates Foundation, which has donated billions of dollars to fund health care, education and development initiatives worldwide. Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025 The White House did not reveal how much Amazon donated to the now $300 million project. Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025 In a series of statements, Howard University officials previously said Scott donated $40 million to the school in 2020. Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025 Proceeds from $10 tickets will be donated to Baby2Baby. Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025 Many experts donated years of their time and decades of expertise to help me make these depictions as rich and accurate as possible. Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025 The Kinder Foundation has donated more than $890 million since its inception. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025 Jeannette's family donated the side saddle to the museum in 1983. Jennifer Brett, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for donated
Verb
  • Her family — mom Donna, sister Christina and brother Jon — were in attendance, along with Harrison’s children Josh and Taylor and his mother Mary Beth, who volunteered at the event.
    Sarah Jones, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The group of high school seniors volunteered as part of a first-time project for their literature and social justice class taught by Maeve Gavagan, an English teacher at Marquette High.
    Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Does a user keep expressing linguistic markers throughout a given conversation?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
Verb
  • Josh Cradduck Assignment Editor, NBC News The Associated Press contributed.
    Josh Cradduck, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Nellie Andreeva contributed to this report.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ellen gave birth to Cooper Ellis Kershaw and Chance James Kershaw in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For decades, American politicians and investors have snickered at the nations that gave birth to Western democracy — Italy and Greece — as examples of fiscal excess.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The focus was to provide more attacking numbers in advanced areas to maintain territorial dominance, with a midfield pair — or ‘double pivot’ — providing the defensive foundation behind a nominal front four.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Alongside contemporaries including Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill and Maxwell, the neo-soul class focused on recapturing the live, thick instrumentation, rich songwriting and weighted, passionate delivery of its nominal genre predecessor.
    Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2023, hackers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas presented research showing how to hack a Deckmate shuffler and use it to cheat.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Another positive is how well Nick Woltemade is settling in, with the German scoring two of the five big chances he has been presented in the Premier League.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The figure of Achilles, a warrior who singlehandedly choked a river with dead enemies before taking on the river god himself, provided a model for Alexander the Great and persists in contemporary popular entertainment, political speech, and military culture in celebrations of shock and awe.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Still, as of Monday, head coach John Harbaugh provided an encouraging update on Jackson’s status ahead of Thursday night’s matchup with the Miami Dolphins.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025

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