CLEAVED Synonyms: 13 Similar and Opposite Words

cleaved

verb

variants or clove or clave

past tense of cleave

as in adhered

to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion you should resolutely cleave to the facts in your report

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Recent Examples of cleaved The capricious shift is whiplash-inducing, as if editors Adam Gough and Tom Eagles cleaved a sizable chunk of footage from the film. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026 Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026 District 8 was cleaved from parts of Districts 1 and 4 and includes Hunter’s Creek, Lake Nona, Moss Park, Williamsburg and Wyndham Lakes. — Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026 His image split down the middle as if cleaved in half by the lightning. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026 Bathroom mirrors and toilets and kitchen tables stand exposed to the rain in homes cleaved in half like dollhouses. — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 20 July 2026 In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives. — New York Times, 22 June 2026 For years, Seattle’s waterfront was isolated and written off as a tourist trap thanks to a double-decker highway that cleaved it from the rest of the city. — Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026 Trunks were cleaved down the center. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026

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McCarthy and his co-screenwriters, Noé Debré and Thomas Bidegain, have adhered closely to the actual transcripts of the conference in their efforts to recreate it.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026
Earlier versions adhered more closely to the facts of what happened to Pam.

— Josh Rivera, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of adhered

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Raichlen’s career, in a way, is similar in that he’s never been stuck in the lane of writing about barbecuing only brisket and pork.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
Other franchises have run into the same issues — looking at you, Star Wars — but Halo has been stuck in this purgatory for 15+ years, as Xbox leaders and strategy shifts come and go.

— Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of stuck

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In the house, his children clung to a ceiling fan as rising water pushed their mattress toward the ceiling.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
The Roadster clung to the surface, hanging upside-down from the ledge like a gecko on a ceiling thanks to a special fan suction system on its chassis.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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