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verb

past tense of preserve

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Recent Examples of preserved
Verb
Operational, commercial, and technological synergies will be preserved through agreements to ensure continuity, enhance speed, and reduce costs. Joe Cornell, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 The agreement preserved DeSantis’ control over the district, while allowing for a new development plan to be crafted. Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024 The Historic Landmark District is well preserved, granted a bit of luck was involved. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 27 Dec. 2024 The agreement preserved DeSantis control over the district, while allowing for a new development plan to be crafted. Skyler Swisher, Sun Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024 Another key oversight mechanism that must be preserved is the Pentagon’s independent testing office, which provides regular assessments of the state of major weapons programs. William Hartung, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 Its service ended in 1909, and the lighthouse is now preserved by the National Park Service. Judy Garrison, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024 Alongside traditional fixtures like the 2,700-pound cast iron chandeliers recreated from original construction drawings and photos with 21st-century energy-efficient lighting, graffiti has been preserved with every effort to find, credit and showcase the artists. Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024 Under Carmody’s leadership since 2007, Eastern Market has added new market days, supported food entrepreneurs and preserved its historic charm. Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preserved
Adjective
  • The latest polling shows broad support for leaving Medicaid untouched or increasing spending, even among Republican voters — numbers that may give some lawmakers pause before approving big cuts.
    Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
  • By Thursday afternoon, McKenzie’s basket of laundry was still sitting in front of the washing machine in the laundry room, untouched.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There is little reason to believe that the current suite of USDA policies will mitigate any of the enormous risks to the food system and ensure the availability of safe, affordable and uncontaminated food.
    Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Once notified of the problem, the three local governments reacted by curtailing use of their contaminated wells and relying more on uncontaminated wells.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Not everyone was on the same page, as some commentators maintained that Lively had behaved rudely to Kjersti Flaa in that infamous interview and had a problematic past.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Supporters maintained that the policy was necessary for public health and safety during the pandemic.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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
  • Yet beneath the pristine public persona were demons that would drive him to alcoholism, scandal, and death from an overdose in 2012.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 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
  • Just as Warner Bros had given Jane’s true creative freedom, from their recording sessions to making their own videos, American facilitated and protected Deconstruction’s art.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
  • But the ecosystem is far from protected, and there are now more than 750 million devices vulnerable to attack.
    Zak Doffman, 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 16 Apr. 2025.

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