steadied

past tense of steady

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for steadied
Verb
  • At exactly noon on New Year’s Day, about 20 people braced their feet against the silty shore of Lake Natoma, hopping and fidgeting to warm themselves.
    Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency on Monday as the government braced for reprisal shootings after an attempt on a gang leader’s life, officials said.
    Reuters, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • An anterior cruciate ligament injury sustained in 2019 did not adversely impact on his progress.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This is the second season Dell sustained a serious injury.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • As Reuters reports, Indonesia's Ministry of Industry has upheld its ban on the iPhone 16 because Apple has yet to meet its domestic content rules.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Although the Supreme Court upheld the protection of the snail darter, President Jimmy Carter would intervene the following year, signing legislation that exempted the Tennessee project from the ESA, leading to its eventual completion.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 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
  • There are still cheerleaders who say H.W. and Clinton’s top-tax-rate increases underlay the 1990s boom and budget surpluses.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • There was another story that underlay the peace negotiations, and that was the story of the love between Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Ava is bored out of her mind and desperate to get to work.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 30 May 2025
  • With a drill bit almost as tall as himself, one of the volunteers bored a hole and dropped in a measuring tape with fold-out brass arms at its end.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
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“Steadied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steadied. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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