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verb

past tense of realize

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Recent Examples of realized
Verb
The rule is your tax losses can offset up to 100% of your taxable gains realized that same year, plus up to $3,000 in ordinary income. Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024 The money saved, and the revenue realized from excellent home attendance, and a lengthly playoff run, may help ease the strain of potential payroll increases. Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 The power of women in commerce is not news to marketers in other industries—who have realized for decades that women make 80% of family healthcare decisions and influence 70%-80% of consumer spending. Ben Kunz, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 The gains are realized broadly across all sectors and industries. Rachel Wells, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 In addition, significant reductions in water and fertilizer use would be realized. Hank Cardello, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 Social Security disability recipients' fears have been realized by the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2025. Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 When Shady Rays realized that its Gen Z consumers were exhibiting buying spontaneity, their marketing team upgraded to a more seamless digital and retail shopping interface. Jeff Fromm, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 The film takes you on an emotional journey through the girls’ memories, the reality of the situation and their daydreams, which helped keep them sane as 45 days passed before anyone realized what had happened to them. Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for realized
Adjective
  • Sugano, 35, enters Major League Baseball as one of Japan’s more accomplished arms.
    Johnny Flores, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Buy Now: Tilt on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble Audition, Katie Kitamura (April 8) Intimacies author Katie Kitamura’s tense new novel, Audition, begins with a Manhattan lunch date between an accomplished theater actor and a troubled man who is young enough to be her son.
    Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The fragments were discovered during excavations at La Prele, an archaeological site in Converse County.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Shortly after his arrest, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X and Goodreads accounts that may have belonged to him were discovered.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Brady’s timepieces earned a whopping $4,622,400 in total.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
  • As a result, the film has earned Run DMC a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Music Film category.
    Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Authorities also learned Borgwardt had been communicating with a woman from Uzbekistan, the sheriff said.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • However, Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s Head of Labor Rights and Sport, says that FIFA learned the wrong lessons from two years ago.
    Ben Church, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Small towns and county sheriffs have reaped benefits from agreements with immigration services, often building or expanding facilities to get contracts.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • No matter what benefits may be reaped from the bioactives in raw milk, Lin said, drinking it is simply too unsafe to recommend.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Ultimately, the resort aims to leave guests feeling renewed, uplifted and inspired, ensuring an achieved sense of ‘weightlessness’.
    Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Especially for her father, who, like her mother, was the child of Jewish immigrants, the house embodied the achieved American dream.
    ARTHUR LUBOW, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
Verb
  • The 600-pound statue was stolen in October, sawed off above the feet, and then found by police, according to the AP.
    Annalise Frank, Axios, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Gibbs hastily sawed off his leg cast, and was seen some time later taking the long-range shot that painted Pedro’s truck window with brain matter.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 9 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • This year’s Women to Watch list includes several more political leaders who have just recently gained or are poised to potentially attain power in months ahead.
    Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The turbos were banished and the cylinder count grew by 50 percent, as Ferrari’s range-topper gained a V-12 for the first time.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024

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