staged 1 of 2

past tense of stage

staged

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adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for staged
Adjective
  • The 6-foot-4 athlete was in transition all by herself and threw down a sensational dunk.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • There’s also plenty of options for serious relaxing and sensational dining.
    Leslie Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Verb
  • After the game, he was presented with the team’s MVP award, given after each win, Kelly Chase’s shoulder pads, which are about 20 years older than Dvorsky, who was born in 2005.
    Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The opportunity presented itself in 2023 when the job’s then incumbent Gregg Berhalter was on the ropes post-World Cup and Marsch was out of work.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • To do this, Congress gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) carte blanche to raise revenue for the USF.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Over the weekend, Hamas gave Qatar and Egypt its agreement to a proposal that resembles an offer made several weeks ago by White House envoy Steve Witkoff.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But now’s the time to go to the prairie to see this showy plant in its full regalia.
    Sheryl DeVore, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Flowering non-stop summer-through fall in showy combinations of yellow, orange, and red, blanket flower provides a good source of nectar to native bees and butterflies, while the small seeds are eaten by finches.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
Verb
  • If Dan Burn’s goal and elevation to the England squad became the individual story of the weekend and Isak’s goal carried a tang of inevitability — so good, so unstoppable — then Newcastle’s midfield felt like the crux of it.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Smoke particles carried by the wind infiltrate homes, schools, and offices, posing serious health risks.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Our dashboard How Low Can Stocks Go During A Market Crash shows how key stocks performed during and after the last six market crashes.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The Houston Astros performed major reconstructive surgery on their lineup this offseason.
    Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Katy Perry's Phoenix concert featured elaborate visuals, gravity-defying stunts and her biggest hits.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 13 July 2025
  • The mayor has yet to internalize how much City Hall’s elaborate bait-and-switch on voters in winning approval of much-higher-than-promised new trash fees on 226,000-plus single-family homes has damaged his reputation.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • While the grandiose gestures may seem romantic and well-intentioned, love bombing is almost always followed by devaluation and criticism.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 10 July 2025
  • In Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, collective or cooperative land reforms—less grandiose and more grassroots than the Soviet or Chinese variants—brought substantive and lasting social change.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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“Staged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staged. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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