DISCOVERED Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in identified

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verb

past tense of discover

as in realized

to come to an awareness of I was startled to discover that my keys were missing

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as in found

to come upon after searching, study, or effort we hope to discover the real reason for his odd behavior

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as in revealed

to make known (as information previously kept secret) discovered to his friend how people whom he had trusted had betrayed him

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Filling in because of an injury, Tucker, a freshman, has discovered the importance of getting the ball to Davis, who has 11 touchdown receptions. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Kriemler first discovered Jungwirth’s paintings at Thaddaeus Ropac about five years ago, traveling expressly to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago just to catch the big Jungwirth retrospective at the Guggenheim there. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026 Police discovered the dead victims inside the home and detained Steele. — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 The incident was largely forgotten until the last few days, when a farmer in rural Minnesota discovered a circular metal object about 11 feet in diameter lay amid the forest of corn stalks. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026 The flaws were discovered in a major programming language called PHP, short for Hypertext Preprocessor. — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026 Sure, the show waned in its later seasons, around the same time the cast discovered hair extensions. — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 It was discovered the hot box was not turned on soon enough prior to placing hot food in the unit. — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026 The exact story of how coffee was discovered isn’t known for sure, but one popular legend says an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi noticed that when his goats ate from a red berry plant, they were infused with energy and stayed awake all night. — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 18 Oct. 2026

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Adjective

Eight Sleep also collects and has a massive cache of user data that, when aggregated and de-identified, can be used to identify broader trends and support research, reports, and studies on sleep and health.

— Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
While Kirk may have received hostile or threatening messages, including on social media, those were not part of any identified or actionable threat stream monitored by federal authorities, the person told Sganga.

— Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026

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It was also realized that having festive crowds enjoying the sight of a someone being killed was unseemly, exposing the base instincts that lie within us.

— Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026
Investors in closed-end funds that use municipal bonds still get monthly tax-free income, but what's distributed can come from a combination of interest payments, realized capital gains from the sale of underlying holdings and return of capital.

— Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of realized

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Randsburg, which was once a booming California Gold Rush town founded in 1895, has seen most of its residents leave over the years.

— Joy Benedict, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
At the time, Truell hadn’t founded a company; but three years later, the venture capitalist persuaded her firm, BoxGroup, to invest in the Gen Z engineering savant’s nascent business.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of found

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Two new clades of the virus, SHAV-EU1 and SHAV-EU2, were detected earlier this year, and genetic testing revealed traces of the first type in the deceased person’s cerebrospinal fluid, urine and saliva, among other samples.

— Sahas Mehra, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
Key Takeaways The experiment revealed an unexpected way to manipulate the weak magnetism inside an atomic nucleus.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of revealed

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As a child, Betkowski displayed a morbid curiosity with chemicals and explosives, Cooper learned.

— Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
For decades, junior accountants learned their trade by reconciling accounts, manually entering data, and grinding through the month-end close.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of learned

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At least 375 children under age 18 in Jacksonville have been hospitalized for firearm injuries since 2018 and at least 150 from ZIP codes 32206, 32208, and 32209 — where Brown’s Dump is located.

— Yona Gavino, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
Later in the day, a California Highway Patrol helicopter located a deceased climber on that route, but a storm system soon moved into the area, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of located

Verb

The Army has not disclosed production quantities or a fielding schedule.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
In May 2026, Anthropic disclosed that more than 80% of the code merged into its production codebase was written by Claude, up from single digits when Claude Code launched in February 2025.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of disclosed

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Meanwhile, companies are deploying AI agents by the thousand, and not one of them has read the company policy or heard the new local court ruling.

— Daniel Kjellén, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Jurors also heard about Garza’s previous run-ins with law enforcement — and his family’s struggles to get help from the county with his mental health.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

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