Thesaurus results for RIVETED

riveted

verb

past tense of rivet

as in focused

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective everyone riveted their eyes on the trick that the magician was performing on stage

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Recent Examples of riveted We were all riveted by the image of a glass of red wine undisturbed by a woman jumping next to it on the bed and the idea of sleeping on memory foam originally developed by NASA, now available to us. — Jaklin Romine oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 His role in Shakur’s assassination in Las Vegas had been at the center of a nearly 30-year mystery that riveted rap fans, true-crime experts and conspiracy theorists. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026 Not long after Kramer died, the theatre director Daniel Fish came across the video and was riveted. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Maslany delivers the tough love from her character with deep conviction that keeps us riveted. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2026 Now, instead of being mostly riveted to Mahomes, defenses figured to be transfixed by what to expect. — Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026 Los Angeles filmmaker and artist Stanya Kahn stared, riveted, at her screen in the first hours after news of the killing emerged, and immediately began screen-grabbing results, knowing something important was happening. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Archaeologists found charcoal, animal bones (none of them chicken bones), Carhartt buttons dating back to the first half of the 20th century and a shovel head that appeared to have been re-riveted by hand multiple times before it was discarded. — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2026 The case riveted the public and spawned true crime documentaries, podcasts and books. — Dianne Gallagher, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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The leader, facing a tough re-election battle, has focused much of his campaign ahead of Tuesday’s vote on security.

— Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026
Elsewhere, long-running demonstrations in Albania and Serbia have focused more on anti-corruption, spiraling into movements seeking to topple each country’s government.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

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The measurements revealed electronic states concentrated along the structure’s boundary, where the lattice meets its surroundings.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
With roughly one million Neets in the UK right now, mainly concentrated in the country’s largest cities, entry-level jobs are in-demand.

— Kristen Parisi, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

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