redounded

past tense of redound
as in resulted
formal to have a particular result
used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something
+ to
It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis.

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Recent Examples of redounded This has both saved lives and redounded enormously to our benefit economically, culturally, and socially. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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performed
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  • Court reporters say the job can be performed only by a human being, who can intervene to ensure everyone is heard and who bears responsibility if a transcript is missing or incomplete.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Atlas performed a series of soccer moves developed using a combination of motion retargeting, reinforcement learning and whole-body control.
    Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026

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“Redounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redounded. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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