scanned

verb

past tense of scan
as in examined
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) scanned the manuscript carefully for any overlooked errors

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Recent Examples of scanned As for the plane in question, this is a variant of the venerable F-16 and is a heavily modernized version featuring, among other features, APG-83 Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026 GPTZero also scanned 300 of the roughly 20,000 submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and found more than 50 hallucinated citations. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 Reporters from The Assembly and ProPublica scanned a state of North Carolina website that details how to file a notice of intent to open a private school. — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2026 He still gets scanned annually, but the infection never resurfaced. — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Barcodes have been a retail stalwart for the last 50 years, on more than 1B products scanned billions of times a day across the globe. — HubSpot, 1 Oct. 2026 Anthony Jack, Richard Boyatzis and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University coached people once about their personal vision and once about their current problems, then scanned them with fMRI. — Catherine Bell, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 The audience is interacting with an object that had been scanned, that had been corrupted in some way. — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026 Today, guests who spring for the front-of-the-line Lightning Lane pass as well as individual access to Rise of the Resistance can expect to pay around an extra $65 per person once having their tickets scanned. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scanned
  1. examined
  2. reviewed
  3. surveyed
  4. inspected
  5. viewed
Verb
  • In the fourth quarter, left tackle Rashawn Slater lay for several moments on the turf and was examined by medical staff before rising to his feet and walking gingerly to the sideline with an ankle injury.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Under D’Amaro, Disney has enacted new rounds of layoffs and examined its cost structure.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of examined
Verb
  • The app also uses daily skin scans to track changes, with treatment plans reviewed monthly based on the patient’s response.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The reporter independently reported and verified the factual claims in this article, and a human editor reviewed it before publication.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of reviewed
Verb
  • Susanna hung to a strap in the crowded car, and critically surveyed the seated crowd spreading just below, from which no one had separated and individualized himself by giving her a seat.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The results also differed markedly depending on the wealth of the country surveyed.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of surveyed
Verb
  • Our school would be housed in the Mountain State Spotlight newsroom, which had not been inspected as a school site.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Potential homes are thoroughly vetted and inspected prior to adoption.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of inspected
Verb
  • This is, of course, not a fair fight, since even at its most successful Hollywood products are viewed in the millions while social-media giants measure results in the billions.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
  • NBCUniversal also reports that in terms of reach, or the number of people who viewed any portion of the episode, the Season 30 premiere hit more than 19 million viewers across platforms.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of viewed

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“Scanned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scanned. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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