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balled

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verb

past tense of ball
as in rolled
to form into a round compact mass balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for balled
Adjective
  • The actor and juror of the filmmaker program wore black Chanel mary jane pumps featuring a rounded toe and a thin strap across the instep.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 6 June 2025
  • Tie Interface Windows 11 features a slicker, more consistent user interface than Windows 10 and uses rounded corners on program windows.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 2 June 2025
Verb
  • Crosby continued his nearly 20-year assault on the Philadelphia Flyers with a 4-point outburst as the Penguins rolled to a 7-3 victory at PPG Paints Arena in their final game before the Christmas break.
    Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Democrats pressing to streamline the prior authorization process in Medicare Advantage have made some last-minute changes that add cost to the plan and could complicate its chances of being rolled into a year-end health deal.
    Victoria Knight, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The location reopened in May of last year: ATMs are walled in by vertical stripes of handmade blue subway tile and lit by bulbous, ’60s-style lights.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Design: This is a compact and lightweight fisheye lens with the standard bulbous front element.
    James Abbott, Space.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • The wrappers don’t have to be a perfect circle, just roundish.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
  • In the map created for the 2022 film, Gotham is three islands that are almost roundish, jagged circles connected by bridges, so the Tricorner Bridge is kind of like the Brooklyn Bridge, but not quite.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 29 May 2025
  • Two hundred of each type of bead were placed inside each of the spherical cages.
    Ben Coxworth May 27, New Atlas, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • As a wave of radioactive green slime envelops him, his body begins to transform—limbs mutating, rows of bloody fangs emerging—his globular, wormlike form, slithering menacingly across the screen.
    Laura Holliday, Wired News, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Never a perfect circle, but dependably rotund, the doughnuts are large enough to tear at greedily and still last the entire drive home.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The toy, named Psyduck—intended for humans—is a rotund duck-like creature prone to splitting headaches.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • The affected product, the fresh cut cucumber, was packaged in a clear circular plastic container with a clear lid and white adhesive label, with the code 00262969000006 and dated up to May 24, 2025.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • The design incorporates circular forms in the ceilings and key architectural accents to reflect the renewing energy of a sunrise.
    Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 4 June 2025
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“Balled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balled. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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