geared

verb

Definition of gearednext
past tense of gear
as in tailored

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  1. adapted
  2. suited
  3. adjusted
  4. matched
  5. conditioned
  6. oriented
  7. accommodated
  8. fit
Verb
  • Despite Murray’s insufficient scoring game on a night the Nuggets probably needed more from their second option, Adelman was happy with how Murray adapted to New Orleans’ gameplan, blitzing him on ball screens all night.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The Fowlerville Community Theater drew direct parallels between the play — adapted from the famed diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl killed by Nazis in the Holocaust — and the events of Saturday night.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of adapted
Verb
  • The afternoon, governed by the heart and small intestine (fire element), is better suited for creative tasks and collaborative work.
    Irina Logman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike traditional CPUs, GPUs are far better suited for the repetitive and complex computations that AI requires, particularly in deep learning and neural networks.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of suited
Verb
  • Credit Agreement, which extended the maturity date and adjusted certain financial covenants.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The increase was due to higher net income adjusted for non-cash items.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of adjusted
Verb
  • The production is strong, conveying a sense of franticness and danger that Durk matched in his aggressive delivery.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • To that point, the NBA says that TBS could have matched a term in Amazon’s offer wherein Amazon pledged to promote NBA telecasts during Thursday Night Football.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of matched
Verb
  • Two and a half millennia of practice has embedded that same signal in our modern culture, and we are all conditioned to respond positively—and reflexively—to the handshake.
    Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Growing up in predominantly Black environments makes this experience less miraculous, and the concept of being an object of their projections of internalized misogyny and anti-Blackness doesn’t challenge me; we are all conditioned in internalized misogynoir.
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of conditioned
Verb
  • Unlikely, but perhaps their precise clocks and bank accounts have oriented them to recognize that – at least as far as apprenticeships are concerned – government should not be in the grantmaking business.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Hsiang and University of California Berkeley researcher Rachel Young looked at hurricane deaths in a different way than previous studies, opting for a more long-term public health and economics-oriented analysis of what’s called excess mortality.
    Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of oriented
Verb
  • Advertisement The centers will house only adult men, while vulnerable people such as women, children, elderly people and those who are ill or victims of torture will be accommodated in Italy.
    Llazar Semini, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The remaining 19 passengers were accommodated by a bus.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of accommodated
Verb
  • Years later, when NASA first measured it, the storm could fit about two Earths within its borders, and now that number is more like one.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The dish fits perfectly with Julia Rivera’s cooking style, which fuses her family’s Korean cuisine with other cuisines, like Mexican. Tokio, in Denver’s Ballpark district, also keeps cheesy ramen, Cremoso Diablo, on the menu.
    Jonathan Shikes, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
Definition of fit
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