pasted

past tense of paste
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pasted The mural in question is pasted along the side of the Jolly Colliers Pub building in Bedminster, Bristol. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Thin partitions marked an early attempt to slice the space into smaller rooms, but the original brick walls remained bare, shivering with cobwebs, where someone had pasted a picture of a man, holy hands bracketing a redbrick heart. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 One was pasted down on page 73 and was light red, like Jefferson’s hair. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026 At the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Kathmandu, the lobby walls have been pasted with photos of hundreds of missing people. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 As New York Times tech journalist Mike Isaac noticed, Zuckerberg apparently copied his Muse announcement from his platform Threads, where his AI agent already had the @muse handle, pasted it onto X, and accidentally tagged the rock band. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 Sep. 2026 Social media users have copied and pasted a map of the geographic distribution of lactose tolerance originally published in the scientific journal Nature into racist chat threads on the online discussion forum 4chan. — Hilary Smith, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026 But if watermarked text is pasted into another chatbot system that edits the text, the watermark could be destroyed. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026 Along the streets in the shadow of the cathedral, posters for Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl allegedly killed by Israel in Gaza, have been pasted to lamp posts. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasted
Verb
  • After learning that Manchester whipped Maggie with a cat-o’-nine-tails, Lizzie agrees to help the Borden family’s maid kill her.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • That sort of whipped, inswinging ball from Slater that caused so much havoc is hugely familiar to avid Premier League watchers.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In 2018, Boulder County slapped the giant energy companies Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil with a lawsuit.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Mateo Chavez slapped out at Sebastian Berhalter and earned a straight red card.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Even the actors’ bodies exhibit the bland greige produced by the high dynamic range of digital cameras and are flattened by the inconsistent lighting that comes from overuse of green screens.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Since the early 2010s, spending per Medicare beneficiary had largely flattened.
    — Aric Coffman, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • His pass set and movements looked more like an art than someone who punched people for a living.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The suspect allegedly punched the woman with a closed fist before taking her phone and driver's license, then fleeing the scene, according to police.
    — Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • James made a nifty behind-the-back pass to Edgecombe (who missed a corner 3) and even squared up and buried a long 3 from about Caitlin Clark range.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The difference is buried in management time, attention, optionality and operating friction.
    — George Wells, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper, two longtime opponents for this franchise, then smacked consecutive homers off Lee, who’d surrendered three long balls the entire regular season.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Contreras smacked Young’s sinker 403 feet to left to lead off the fourth for his 18th homer.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • That changed a bit earlier this month when the Houthis bombed the Saudi East-West pipeline, temporarily shutting down roughly 7 million barrels of oil flowing to the Red Sea – more than half of which had been diverted from the Strait of Hormuz.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Palminteri argued that early career struggles do not define a player's potential, pointing to guys like Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield who got drafted, bombed, busted, and then roared back.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In a press conference on Wednesday, DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry said the police investigation began on the night of Oct 8, 2011, when a 17-year-old girl ran to apartment complex on Lumbee Drive, knocked on a door, and asked for help.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The Maine, North Carolina, and Texas AFL-CIOs and their affiliates have knocked hundreds of thousands of doors already this cycle, presenting voters with the contract and where the candidates stand.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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“Pasted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasted. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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