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verb

past tense of preserve

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Recent Examples of preserved
Verb
Some sets were constructed in Toronto, disassembled and shipped out and have now been preserved for a potential second season. Amber Dowling, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025 Yet Flores would like to see our historic places — which are in fact the city’s Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) — not preserved. Bruce D Coons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025 Per the Ford family’s request, the property’s most storied elements were preserved, such as the lobby’s checkerboard Italian marble flooring, selected by Ford himself, and the original green marble fireplace. Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 9 Apr. 2025 Her literary legacy, preserved in archives at Columbia University, offers glimpses into her mind but no definitive answers to her fate. Patti Callahan Henry, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preserved
Adjective
  • But the challengers urged the Supreme Court to leave the district court orders untouched.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • In Griffin, meanwhile, the four Republican justices ordered voters disenfranchised in just four North Carolina counties — all of which favor Democrats — while leaving similarly situated voters in other counties untouched.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Livestock should be moved to clean pastures or given uncontaminated fodder.
    David Kitchen, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The researchers will have to make it out alive and uncontaminated.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Ferrari driver maintained the lead on the opening lap and steadily built a gap, trying to break the DRS window to the Red Bull driver on his tail.
    Luke Smith, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The defense firm maintained that the program is an opportunity to align with the Dutch government’s policy of support and empowerment of strategic national industries.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Several agents observed that the new money in Palm Beach County is notably younger: couples with small children who have fled larger cities to congregate with the like-minded in a pristine place without the irritation of homelessness or, for that matter, encounters with the middle class.
    Emily Witt, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
  • With all the uncertainty surrounding the sale of the team and many fans wanting new ownership, and both the club and its fan base looking to shed the bad taste of last year’s collapse, the Twins are hoping for a pristine start to 2025.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With around 500 full-time residents, unspoiled shores, and no high-rises in sight, peace is easy to come by.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The resort features 21 infinity pool villas and five hilltop Grand Residences, offering access to one of the most unspoiled reefs in the world.
    Kaila Yu, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • For creators who haven't yet protected their intellectual property, trademark registration should be a priority for early 2025.
    Ian Shepherd, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • This threat means than an entire attack force can be protected with a few missiles.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Some replacements were found in the everyday speech of rural Anatolian villagers or the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, both of which were assumed to have preserved an untainted original Turkish.
    Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2015
  • In the awards race, the question looms: Will any of the nominees make it to the ceremony untainted?
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2025

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“Preserved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preserved. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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