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verb

past tense of invest
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as in inducted
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies the beloved actor was finally invested as a knight by the queen

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as in besieged
to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication the city was mercilessly invested for an entire year, but never fell

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Recent Examples of invested
Adjective
And even when the original clips of viral moments are authentic, they’re increasingly used as a launching point for embellished narratives and AI content – to capture an invested audience. Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
By the mid-nineteenth century, the it-narrative began to interest authors invested less in provoking excitement than in guiding the moral development of their readers. Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026 That angered Michigan Democrats who were frustrated with El-Sayed, and brought Jeffries and other Democrats into the fray, putting the candidate El-Sayed had invested the most in on the defensive. David Weigel, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Modi also persisted with difficult trade negotiations and invested considerable political capital in overcoming the resistance of India’s traditionally protectionist trade bureaucracy. C. Raja Mohan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026 Parton invested time and money in causes that were important to her, including funding college tuition and saving bald eagles. Maggie Penman, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2026 The commitment is particularly notable because Amazon has invested heavily in developing its own AI chips . Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026 And of course, now that song is going to get a new bump, and Dolly took that money and invested it in people. Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 The team has invested too much in Joe Milton III and Sam Howell to let either guy walk. Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026 Nvidia has already invested tens of billions of dollars in its own open-source models. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invested
Adjective
  • For a state facing persistent challenges from drought, heat and limited water, researchers hope one of the world's most valuable spices could offer Colorado farmers a new opportunity—one uniquely suited to the state's climate.
    Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Maps of the Earth’s gravity fields are more widely available and more suited for maritime vessels for technical reasons.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.
    Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • Hardy gifted his lifelong love of the game to Naima, Coltrane’s 13-year-old daughter in the novel.
    Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • She was also widely admired for her philanthropy, including her Imagination Library program, which has gifted more than 300 million books to children across the world over 31 years.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Those walls are coming down, thanks to a wave of vibe coding enabled by OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Cowork.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Performance is driven by Processes, enabled by People and inspired by Purpose—and all of it is held together by a bit of Phun.
    Sam Talya, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The television personality was clad in a vampy all-burgundy ensemble that was playfully textural.
    Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The resulting low-slung structure is clad in understated materials, with a sloping bronze-colored roof, stone chimney, expansive glazing, and teak siding.
    David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Charles Charles Woodson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Twenty One Pilots first led a tribute performance of the stadium stomper when Jack and Meg White were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last November.
    Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In recent months, Israeli settlers have repeatedly besieged the village of Qusra, defying orders from the authorities to leave the area and trying to force Palestinian families, some of whom are also American citizens, out.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There has been a spate of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, and the village of Qusra has been besieged by Israeli settlers for weeks.
    F. Brinley Bruton, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Each piece of yuca (cut like a large fry) is wrapped in bacon and fried until the outside is crispy and golden while the center remains soft.
    Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • On Saturday, Bueckers was at a Costco on Arbrook Boulevard, with fans of all ages wrapped around several aisles lining up to get an autograph and a picture with the star.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2026

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“Invested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invested. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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