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verb

past tense of tell
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to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added who can tell the number of grains of sand in the world?

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of told
Verb
In fact, three experts told Newsweek that 2025 will look much the same as 2024 in terms of COVID-19 risk. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025 As a defensive end going to a Power 4 school, I’ve been told $60,000 to $80,000 a semester. Manny Navarro, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025 In the year ahead, China will expand issuance of ultra-long bonds and ramp up efforts to boost consumption, senior officials from China’s National Development and Reform Commission told reporters Friday. Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2025 In August 1979, a Florida sheriff’s deputy told authorities that his wife fatally shot herself at their home south of Tampa. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025 Sources told Fox 8 that bomb-making materials were found at the rental property. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025 Carlsen was told he would be fined $200, and was asked to change his clothes, the federation said. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2024 One multiple red and green-lit drones struck a 7-year-old boy and knocked him out upon impact, his parents previously told Fox Orlando. Louis Casiano, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2024 Shyer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer, writer and director of the 2017 Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again, told The Hollywood Reporter. Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for told
Adjective
  • When their different governments demanded satisfaction, our country was forced to confess her inability to protect said subjects in the several States because of our State-rights doctrines, or in turn demand punishment of the lynchers.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The yield is fantastic: perfect, succulent chicken that’s had an aromatic soak with ginger, scallions and garlic; soothing chicken soup; rice that’s been cooked in some of said soup with pandan leaves; and a sparkly ginger-scallion sauce.
    Mia Leimkuhler, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Oft described as a sweet and sensual floral, this opens with notes of rhubarb, lychee, and bergamot with damascena rose at the heart—rooted in cashmere and musk.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Experts Weigh In Jonathan Hinton Westover, chair and professor of organizational leadership and change at Utah Valley University, described the theme as emblematic of a toxic workplace culture.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Staff from New Hampshire Public Radio talked to everyone, from roadtrippers to small business owners, state park workers, and local university students.
    Natalie Escobar, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
  • As part of his teaching, the court heard that Westwood talked to one teenager, who was raped, about a masturbation scene from Bridgerton.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Steele informed him of her gender transition.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
  • According to prosecutors, the company was informed in the following months the FDA was unlikely to grant that request.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Following the death of Carter, aged 100, on December 29, 2024, President Joe Biden instructed all flags on public buildings to be lowered to half-staff for 30 days, a proclamation repeated by New York State's Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Chiles won team gold at the Paris Olympics but became embroiled in one of the biggest controversies of the Games when she was instructed to give up her individual floor exercise bronze medal to Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu after a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Their findings revealed that persistent visual cues of disorganization deplete our cognitive resources and impair our ability to concentrate.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct answer will be revealed.
    J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The result is that broad cuts to those programs won’t add much toward Musk’s stated goal of shrinking the federal budget.
    Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Some of those deals also opened ownership ranks to more diverse investors, a stated priority of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
    Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • In spring 2024, a WTA doctor advised her to undergo a mammogram, before a biopsy confirmed the cancer diagnosis.
    James Hansen, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The products are all past their sell by date, but the FDA advised that consumers check their freezers for the product.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024

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“Told.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/told. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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