carried out

past tense of carry out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for carried out
Verb
  • That’s compared to only 55% of women who feel fulfilled still working a nine-to-five job for someone else.
    Liz Elting, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • School leaders believed other records that might have fulfilled the requests contained too much private information and were excluded from public record under student privacy laws.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Salah’s remarkable run has already led him to achieve milestones only previously accomplished by legends.
    Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Woods Richardson accomplished his goal, getting strikes on 20 of 33 pitches on Tuesday and finishing with three strikeouts in two innings.
    Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Carter, 66, who played on the men’s basketball team from 1976 to 1980, said no other doctor had ever performed a rectal examination on him as part of a physical examination.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Over the past 17 years, Mandal has performed at over 2,000 corporate events, primarily in finance, tech, and healthcare.
    Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona and Texas have executed men by lethal injection, while South Carolina has used both the firing squad and lethal injection.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Mahdi is the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes its way through prisoners who ran out of appeals during a 13-year pause on executions in the state.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • While significant progress has been made, more than 40% of the lands within the Wildlife Corridor remain unprotected and vulnerable to development.
    Haley Busch, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2025
  • However, much of the material, including Epstein’s infamous contacts book, had already been made public through past litigation and discovery files.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The Jet Pilot is essentially a Daiquiri—rum, lime and simple syrup, one of the world’s great three ingredient drinks—put through a kaleidoscope.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
  • Because she’s been put through the wringer, and she’s continued to make her work.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Carried out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carried%20out. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!