OFFERED Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

offered

verb

past tense of offer

as in gave

to put before another for acceptance or consideration I offered my boss an alternative to the original plan, which would have required me to work overtime

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as in suggested

to set before the mind for consideration offered the idea of a vacation at a beach resort in the Caribbean

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as in presented

to bring before the public in performance or exhibition a summer theater offering a full schedule of musicals to the vacationing public

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as in sacrificed

to give up as an offering to a god when fruits, flowers, or crops are offered, the offering is known as a bloodless sacrifice

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Recent Examples of offered The Rwanda project offered an opportunity to assess what this simple piece of infrastructure might be able to accomplish. — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026 For many of her fans, the practice court offered a chance to see her up close for free. — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart amid the backlash and offered a rare apology but said the media distorted his comments. — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 CrowdStrike offered another example of AI becoming a tailwind rather than a threat. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026 Iran has already offered a glimpse of what this could mean in practice. — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026 The software offered to fix it, rendering a version with the left side lifted and overlaying the before and after so the subject could watch his own jawline move. — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Glutathione was offered to firefighters during recent blazes that destroyed hundreds of buildings in and around Spokane, Washington. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 The Red Sox’s Sonny Gray offered up a middle-middle fastball in the fourth, and Devers sent it 412 feet over the center-field fence. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026

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Verb

Rocket Lab was supposed to have a satellite on standby to go up and inspect True Anomaly’s spacecraft, ready to launch on short notice once military officials gave the order.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
Additionally, prosecutors allege Rincker gave Alvarez a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, Jamioles said.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026

Definition of gave

Verb

The case is nearly 30 years old, which has affected the kind of evidence presented in court.

— Jonathan Landrum Jr, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
Following Abloh’s death in November 2021, Kamara was appointed as art and image director and presented his first show, Spring/Summer 2023, in Paris that year.

— Luke Leitch, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of presented

Verb

Now the question for the Heat becomes whether a similar deal tendered to Nikola Jovic will require contract gymnastics of their own down the line, with that extension kicking in this season.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
The team drafted him out of high school in the summer of 2013 and non-tendered him in the fall of 2022.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Definition of tendered

Verb

The most typical public piece is a bust, but Plasencia proposed the idea of a monument, and it was accepted.

— Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
When the East Plano Islamic Center proposed a 400-acre development north of Dallas anchored by a mosque, an Islamic school and homes marketed to Muslim families, the response wasn’t ordinary zoning review.

— Asma Uddin, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of proposed

Verb

Norman carried his district and the upstate, where the Grahams were raised and where conservative voters had been most critical of the late senator.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Moscow overnight into Wednesday morning, the city's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said, hours after the departure of the plane that carried CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow for an unannounced visit on Tuesday morning.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of carried

Verb

Meanwhile, more than 15,000 employees at the USDA signaled their intention to resign by accepting the offer proffered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

— Corinne Low, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
Almost every prediction about the price and supply of oil and petroleum products proffered since the start of the Iran War has been wrong.

— George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

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