Thesaurus results for CONSULTED

consulted

verb

past tense of consult

as in conferred

to exchange viewpoints or seek advice for the purpose of finding a solution to a problem will consult with several experts on the disease before deciding which course of treatment to pursue

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to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage I often consult the dictionary when I am uncertain of a word's exact meaning

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Recent Examples of consulted The Post consulted outside experts on these methods, including economists at the Economic Policy Institute, Allison Schrager of the Manhattan Institute, Matthew Rae of KFF, and researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity. — Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026 And while decisions were being made about what tech to adopt and how much to pay for it, few outside the NYPD were consulted. — Amanda Aronczyk, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026 Have any of the decision-makers consulted with people who know horses? — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 The Juruna and Arara Indigenous communities have previously said they were not properly consulted about the project, a claim Belo Sun disputes. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026 Advocates for Indigenous groups say communities are too often consulted after priorities are set, rather than being involved in setting them. — David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026 That lack of information has prompted calls from repatriation experts for Indigenous communities to be consulted before the objects change hands. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The pickup’s driver, a 34-year-old woman from Garden City, Kansas, was taken into custody but was later released after police consulted with the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office. — Maggie Vespa, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026 More complaints came in in June, and the agency contacted the people who filed them and gave them information about coyote behavior and consulted with the state about residents’ concerns. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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Musk’s money and influence are pretty much all conferred on him by investors; if the Tesla and SpaceX stock prices drop far enough, his buying (and borrowing) power suddenly shrink.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
Judge, along with Michael Schuck, the club’s director of sports medicine and rehabilitation, conferred with the skipper.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026

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The three-week trial included hours of video evidence and testimony from multiple witnesses and experts, including a medical examiner who discussed the injuries that killed the three firefighters.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
In 2024, there wasn’t a single election ad on broadcast TV that mentioned data centers, according to tracking from the firm AdImpact, and in most of 2025, only a handful discussed them, largely in down-ballot state races.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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At the time, the team utilized a different error-correction method called Helix to demonstrate record-setting logical memory and computation.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Atlanta's fourth-quarter comeback attempt allowed tight end Kyle Pitts to show why he should have been better utilized earlier in the game.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of utilized

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Ars previously talked with one US robotics distributor that has pivoted from importing China’s humanoid robots to opening a US manufacturing facility for robots.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
In May of that year, Walzer and I sat in their kitchen and talked amid boxes waiting to be unpacked and paintings waiting to be hung.

— Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

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