OWNED (UP) Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

owned (up)

verb

past tense of own (up)

as in confessed

to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid had a strong suspicion about which coworker stole her food from the office fridge, but the likely culprit refused to own up

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Heartstopper alum Locke confessed to THR that his first read of the script was emotional.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Wagner added that even if Yust’s attorneys had made mistakes, there was no reasonable probability the outcome would have been different, citing strong evidence that included testimony that Yust had confessed to both killings.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026

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Even Macron’s current minister of education, Édouard Geffray, has admitted that at least some of his five children attend private establishments.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
OpenAI also did not include full prompts or run-time details for how their agents uncovered the proofs, and officials admitted in a blog post about the results that citations and written descriptions of findings could be improved in future releases.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

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