NAILED (DOWN) Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

nailed (down)

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past tense of nail (down)

as in established

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Talks will take place under the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, or UNTOC, a global treaty established in 2003 to combat international criminal networks, money laundering, and corruption.

— Spoorthy Raman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
His attorneys dispute that his role as administrator established responsibility for threats allegedly made by others.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of established

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The decision to launch the movie in moderate release — rather than limited in just a handful of venues or nationwide on more than 2,000 screens — proved wise because the studio was able to bolster awareness while cultivating a sense of scarcity.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
The route Morrison and Nelson had in mind, the Super Direct, via the Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs, has proved almost unclimbable, much less skiable.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

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The researchers determined how high the barriers must be and their necessary width for electrons to flow through.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Dairy farmers sell into commodity markets where prices are largely determined by global supply and demand, while essential inputs such as feed, fuel and fertilizer costs are driven by many of those same external forces.

— Jeff Tkach, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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Anthropic researchers demonstrated this weakness by using Claude to generate seemingly innocent stories that taught other models to resist human oversight.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Patients largely avoided drug, with the whole episode culminating in investigations by the media and Congress that demonstrated improper pressure by the manufacturer on the FDA leading to the approval decision.

— C. Joseph Ross Daval, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026

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Photographs released by the sheriff’s office showed one helicopter overturned and another severely damaged.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
The last snapshot of that data, published in September 2024, showed there were nearly 428,000 Black federal employees, representing about 19% of the total workforce.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of showed

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And his being a Dalit has actually insured significant participation from the Dalit community.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
Hospital off-campus clinic sites grew from about 7,000 in 2013 to more than 34,000 in 2023, often in neighborhoods that are wealthier and better-insured than that of the parent hospital.

— Casey B. Mulligan, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026

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The Pentagon is preparing additional records for public release, although officials have not specified when the next batch will appear.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
For now the collaboration is geared toward middle and high school students, with a focus on the latter, in a few partner Y locations (not yet specified).

— Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

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