hoped

Definition of hopednext
past tense of hope

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of hoped Patients and the company had hoped the therapy could move into an FDA review based on existing evidence, a hope that was dashed Monday. Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoped
Verb
  • The story that has been buried for generations, just like her mother has always wished.
    Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Fans who no longer wished to attend were offered the option to claim a refund.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • England, who spent years working in hospitality, as well as in retail management, has dreamed of opening her own place for years and spent two years preparing Kaos by obtaining permits, a liquor license, preparing the kitchen and thoughtfully decorating.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2026
  • While there has always been a thriving industry of paranoid books and films, modern conspiracism has avenues of distribution and incentive that Cold War cranks and 19th-century pamphleteers could have only dreamed of.
    Mike Rothschild, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The test flight is intended to provide critical performance data and operational experience for future Artemis missions, including landing American astronauts back on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
  • But the stadium was never intended as Inter Miami’s permanent home.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Melvin—always the empath—looked ready to head home and cry.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The rest of them looked lost without him.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Could proposed property tax cuts impact shops and other businesses?
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • That debate is now heating up in Kentucky, where state lawmakers just voted to override new wakeboat regulations that state wildlife officials had proposed in December.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • After a kind gesture to airport employees in Georgia didn't go as planned, Tyler Perry found a workaround.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Rallies are also planned in more than a dozen other countries, from Europe to Latin America to Australia, Ezra Levin, a co-executive director of Indivisible, a group spearheading the events, said in an interview.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • City leaders say the structures are meant to be multi-functional, with people frequently stopping by to do work, grab coffee, or simply spend time with others.
    Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Being embedded meant slowing down, listening, and understanding the genealogy of the triennial itself—seeing HT25 not as a rupture, but as part of an ongoing continuum.
    Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Officials and defense analysts have long said that the constraint is not simply funding, but structural limits in a defense industrial base designed for predictable demand rather than rapid wartime expansion.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Enter Twinpalms Bangtao Phuket Tented Resort, the hideaway designed for those yearning for escapism.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026

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“Hoped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoped. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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