lofted

past tense of loft

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Verb
  • Last year, at the end of a 12-hour shift, his legs were hurting when a child hurled himself onto his lap.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Each side hurled flagpoles and fists at one another in an incident which triggered days of violence across Canada and led to multiple arrests.
    Lex Harvey, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The controversial Corporate Transparency Act seems to be getting closer to being completely tossed on legal grounds, writes Forbes’ Kelly Phillips Erb.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Shortly after tipoff, Green played peacemaker after Edwards tossed down Jonathan Kuminga after a steal for a technical foul.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Social media was flooded with videos of people emerging dazed and dishevelled from Assad’s state prisons, in many ways the most potent symbol of his rule, which had been flung open by opposition forces.
    Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The ray spiders flung their webs when the tuning fork was farther away than the mosquitos had been.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Lofted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lofted. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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