bludged

Definition of bludgednext
past tense of bludge, chiefly Australian & New Zealand

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Jews have prayed facing Jerusalem for thousands of years.
    Rabbi Tuvia Brander, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Tuesday, the body of Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal was returned to his mosque, where his community prayed over it.
    Bo Evans, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • More than 100 airport leaders on Monday implored Congress in a letter to end a funding standoff that has forced 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers to go unpaid and has led to massive security lines.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Last week, students implored officials at a Board of Education meeting to keep their buildings open.
    Joe Brandt, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Curry’s passenger begged officers to help Curry but Billups-Taylor blithely dismissed this concern, stating that Curry was acting, court documents state.
    Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • In an embarrassingly amateurish political stunt, Bianco blew the president a kiss and all but begged for an endorsement by seizing 650,000 ballots from last November’s election to determine whether they were fraudulently counted.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The music was sufficiently groovy, the costumes era-appropriate (miniskirts, Travolta-tight slacks), yet nothing conjured the tension of an oppressive August day—and nobody broke a sweat.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Even in those quiet hysterics which statued me unprovoked, my imagination had not conjured this rapid an unspooling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Environmental groups and a handful of governors have recently petitioned the EPA to add microplastics to the forthcoming version of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, or UCMR, which the agency recently submitted to the White House.
    Will Stone, NPR, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Hildebrand successfully petitioned the court for a ruling on her candidacy, as the Department of Revenue failed to notify the school district of her tax status before she was put on the ballot.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Bludged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bludged. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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