exchanged

past tense of exchange
as in traded
to give up (something) and take something else in return I'd like to exchange this sweater for one in a larger size

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Recent Examples of exchanged Gift returns can be exchanged or refunded for the value indicated on the gift receipt, and refunds will be made in the form of a merchandise credit. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2026 India ranked as Montreal’s second-largest market in 2025, with 1 million metric tons of goods exchanged between the parties. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 Kansas City, Kansas Police Department Chief Karl Oakman said at the time that officers from both his department and the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office exchanged gunfire with Harris. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026 Sierra even exchanged flirty texts with another woman days after the bodies were found. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026 Two men were found dead inside a Long Beach home after one of them exchanged shots with police and sparked a standoff with SWAT officers in a residential neighborhood early Saturday morning, police said. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2026 Times have changed at ESPN, however, thanks to a sweeping deal with the NFL that exchanged a 10% stake in the network for control of media assets including NFL Network. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2026 Creality hasn't eliminated the compromises of multi-color printing so much as exchanged one set for another. — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026 Jo also inherited hundreds of letters that Vincent wrote and received, most exchanged with Theo. — Joan Martelli, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exchanged
Verb
  • Shares have traded lower after each of its last four reports and our technical levels have been able to guide us to profits.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Zero-day options are option contracts that expire at the end of the same day they are traded.
    — Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Although the couple had swapped the vehicle's license plates, an Arkansas Razorbacks logo seen in surveillance footage was still affixed to the rear of the vehicle.
    — S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Falcons swapped veteran quarterbacks on their 53-man roster, signing Andy Dalton and releasing Cooper Rush, the team announced Monday.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Mugrabi has disputed that the lien was ever valid, claiming that the Basquiat was pledged as collateral in an October 2023 term sheet, but was substituted with the 1964 Andy Warhol work Jackie the following month.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Greenwood was then substituted, leaving the pitch without a shirt on.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That changed when Detective Tim Cooper, who watched that episode as a child, had a chance encounter in 2018 in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church parking lot.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The scale, frequency, quantification, and accessibility of social comparison have all changed.
    — Ashwini Nadkarni, Time, 24 Oct. 2026

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“Exchanged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exchanged. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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