NAILED (DOWN) Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

nailed (down)

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past tense of nail (down)

as in established

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Other networks have been established for working fathers, LGBTQ+ employees, and early-career staff, which were established to give younger employees a greater say in their career development and opportunities to communicate with leadership.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Deadline has established that several top producers have declined to throw their hat into the ring, with many citing concerns about the lack of rights and the production contract sucking creative energy away from other projects.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of established

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Reworking catalog hits of the past — albeit by other artists — has previously proved to be a formula for chart success, given how TikTok and social media have disrupted traditional music consumption methods.

— Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
That campaign managed to expel the rebels from Aden, but the Houthis — tough mountain fighters who received Iranian training to field and eventually manufacture drones and missiles — proved a difficult adversary.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

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Investigators determined the cause of death was strangulation and loss of blood due to blunt force injuries.

— Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Instead of time spent in practice, the key to success, as Susman and fellow researchers determined, turned out to be consistency.

— Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of determined

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The researchers demonstrated tasks containing as many as 12 steps without providing additional demonstrations for those longer sequences.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
In Lepecki’s account, the gesture again demonstrated that stillness in dance always vibrates with subtle motion.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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Appetite for top office space remains strong across the capital, while CWG’s latest earnings showed that availability in Central London fell 20% year on year as supply in Docklands stayed broadly steady.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Property records showed that the LA Building and Safety Department cited the homeowner in 2014 for violations, including garbage on the property, excessive vegetation, open storage, and no driveway access.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

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Areas at high risk of flooding and where few people are insured tend to be poorer, experts said, as are areas where FEMA's flood maps don't properly convey the severity of the risk or mandate that enough people buy coverage.

— MICHAEL PHILLIS, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
Areas at high risk of flooding and where few people are insured tend to be poorer, experts said, as are areas where FEMA’s flood maps don’t properly convey the severity of the risk or mandate that enough people buy coverage.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of insured

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The test will cost somewhere between about $500 (the current Medicare payment for Cologuard, the benchmark specified in the MCED Coverage Act) and $949 (Grail’s current list price).

— H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
Head coach Dave Canales has not specified what Legette’s injury is.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2026

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