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verb

past tense of shape

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shaped
Adjective
The Shadow of the Bear is the name given to an unusually shaped shadow against Whiteside Mountain near Cashiers, North Carolina. — Eva Flowe october 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026 Varmilo and NiZ’s EC switches, for example, have Cherry MX-style, cross-shaped stems and plastic housing. — ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026 The home button has its own distinct metal surface, and other buttons on the remote are indented or distinctly shaped. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026 Domino’s new Domino is also rectangular-shaped, a hallmark of Detroit-style pizza, and designed for a single serving. — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2026 Mizar and Alcor In the handle of the pan-shaped Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major) is the pair of stars called Mizar and Alcor. — Gemma Lavender, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026 The fruit is large, cone-shaped, and features smooth yellow-green to gold skin, with a sweet, mellow flavor and a hint of honey. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 19 Aug. 2026 At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers. — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026 Not only is this the highest resolution presentation, but the theater screens themselves are also massive, curved and somewhat square-shaped, allowing the audience to feel enveloped by the movie. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Verb
The notice says those factors shaped the length of the prison term and the decision to suspend it. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 For others, simply sharing the room with two women who have shaped American history was overwhelming. — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Because many Italian immigrants arrived without having been shaped by the Anglo-American racial order, many initially found solidarity with Black Americans. — Ed Simon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2026 This digital journey potentially shaped the ideologies that formed into a riot on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2026 The stone pillars were cut and shaped using a technique still unknown to researchers. — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2026 The office, and Professor Brown’s unabashed obsession with women who had lived and worked a thousand years ago, shaped the young woman’s dreams. — Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026 Is this truly what museum security requires, or has the logic of a private compound shaped an institution that was supposed to welcome the city? — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 To someone who knows Miami-Dade, the mangroves, coral and photographs of workers and machinery reveal more of what shaped that view. — Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaped
Adjective
  • When decisions arrive pre-formed, discernment fades.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Both pre-formed vitamin A and provitamin A carotenoids are used in supplements.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 8 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • As a director, Fish has taken subversive, revelatory approaches to the theatrical canon and has adapted, for a taste, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Like many places around the country, ecosystems in Florida have adapted to fire over time, and it’s needed to help these places thrive, according to Crandall.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • At 25 minutes per episode, the show is designed for streaming services, and it has been given an innovative rollout in Germany this fall, when three episodes will launch on ZDF’s streaming service, with Episode 1 also available on YouTube.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Typically made in days or weeks, emergency orders are designed to be temporary, lasting only as cases continue to play out in lower courts.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The commission voted 7-1 to direct County Attorney Tyrone Wade to look into whether any laws or policies were broken during the consent agenda vote and whether any policies should be adjusted to prevent similar situations in the future.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Both figures were adjusted to represent full-time equivalent student and employee numbers.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Part 2 is planned for Christmas 2026, with Part 3 currently in development.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Balknight had also planned to retire that day before agreeing to stay on as acting superintendent.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Outpost says the expensive, complex infrastructure is built once and reused across missions, with the innermost module tailored to each customer.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Local coverage focused on a few remarks that were tailored to their states, like Vice President JD Vance’s plea, in Iowa, for Congress to enact year-round E15 sales.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Write down its document number, recording date, parties and the name of the person or company that prepared it.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Van Houten said his decision to not prosecute the case was based on the statement prepared by campus police and signed by the woman.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As one of the three colorways that conformed with the NBA’s uniform regulations, the sneaker is rendered primarily in white.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • That dwarfed the offerings of Morocco, which had no existing stadiums that conformed to tournament specifications and would need to spend upwards of $15 billion to prepare for a World Cup.
    — Kevin Baxter Follow June 7, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026

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

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