laid down

past tense of lay down
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laid down
Verb
  • Policies enacted years ago are paying dividends.
    Justin Worland, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Traction law restrictions may be enacted.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Rescuers were unable to resuscitate her and she was declared dead at the scene, police said.
    Michael Levitt, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The ship recently completed five days of trials and has now been declared ready for all kinds of sea operations.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The types of chemicals were not specified in the arrest affidavit.
    Noe Padilla, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
  • No cause of death was specified.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Under the deal passed just as Congress skedaddled from Washington before the end of the year, the ceiling will be exceeded sometime between January 14 and January 23.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2025
  • In addition to a stop at his boyhood home, now maintained by the National Park Service, the hearse passed through Plains, a town of some 500 people that had been his home base throughout life.
    Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Third Down Conversions Another area where the first-round winners asserted their dominance was on third-down conversions.
    Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • As part of its motion, the government asserted that if the Court did not grant the stay by December 12 or 13, the government would ask for the same relief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Andrew Garfield, an actor who has defined the notion of being a modern leading man with feelings, thinks cinemagoers should be free to show their emotions without apology.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Perry and Ryan Getzlaf defined Ducks hockey for more than a decade.
    Eric Stephens, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Advances in technology have rendered phishing more accessible to cybercriminals.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The community disappeared by 1983 when decades of industrial development, pollution and waste rendered the area unlivable.
    Larkin Gallup, Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • That professed skepticism clashed with his record in office.
    Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
  • That professed confidence in each’s own instincts and indifference to most dissident opinions is how both led the country and made some pretty colossal missteps.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Laid down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid%20down. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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