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verb

past tense of profess
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Recent Examples of professed
Adjective
The government acts with ulterior motives that diverge from the interests of professed beneficiaries. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025 Casey Robert Goonan set fires and placed explosives on federal and university property on multiple occasions in a professed act of retaliation against the federal government and UC administration over the war in Gaza, authorities said. Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
In 1914, Kolbe professed final vows, taking the name Br. Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024 Roosevelt’s professed horror at Hitler’s threat to democratic dispensations or the diabolically racist Nuremberg laws stretches credulity. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for professed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professed
Adjective
  • The mixture is often constructed around Vessel’s burly croon, which is frequently presented at the front of the mix, but is adept at harvesting accessible hooks out of a crashing breakdown when needed.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Quick-footed Trevor Story was adept at vacuuming up the baseball and making a spinning throw to first.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Seemingly as a gag to portray a darker Buddy, Ferrell held what appeared to be an unlit cigarette in his mouth and pretended to smoke it.
    Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Oh Il-nam (Oh Yeong-su), a dying old man who pretended to be Gi-hun’s ally in the game.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Dozens of people have been infected around the country, California has declared a state of emergency and the spread among livestock has begun impacting the food supply.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Bill Lawrence has been around long enough to hear the comedy, the multicam sitcom — everything, really — declared dead.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Just days before the vote, the complaint alleged, the employee in the auditor’s office violated ethics laws by sharing confidential information that portrayed the ambulance service negatively.
    Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2025
  • To that end, although the complaint references alleged text messages from Bayless, the more explosive and damning allegations are told through Faraji’s recollections.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The leaders who are most trusted aren’t necessarily the most charismatic or the most experienced.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Winston becomes the most experienced quarterback on the Giants' roster, joining former undrafted free agent Tommy DeVito, the only other quarterback on the team.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • On the other end, Gibbs began to slither his way into open space, and the Lions assumed full control.
    Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • As an incentive for the teams to stick around, the city assumed ownership of the land but agreed to give it back to the teams at the expiration of a ground lease in 2023, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 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
  • In the end, Myanmar's reform project did not fail, as some have asserted, but was brutally derailed.
    Derek Mitchell, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Rivers insisted Monday that there are different ways of convincing a team its record is not reflective of its abilities.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In the House, a majority of Democrats voted against the bill after House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted on adding the provision to ban transgender medical care for children.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2024

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“Professed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professed. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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