coffered

past tense of coffer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffered
Verb
  • Candidates receiving the funding must abide by expenditure limits and adhere to the criteria set by statute, ordinance or charter to demonstrate broad support, such as demonstrate a large number of small dollar contributions.
    Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • The government would hold shares whose worth is set by the market.
    James Broughel, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • The first batter Barnes faced, Jonah Heim, deposited a 444-foot home run on the roof of the Dodgers’ clubhouse beyond the center-field fence.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • He’s transported to a realm of Tolkienesque fantasy, deposited somewhere between the Stony Waste and the Frozen Sea.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • The lengthy delay to the funeral has raised questions about how Khamenei's remains have been preserved, as Islamic tradition, anaylsts say, generally calls for prompt burial and discourages chemical embalming.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • Rather than adapting the group’s concept for the Korean market, the team preserved its distinctly Japanese aesthetic by making only minor adjustments.
    Faye Bradley, Variety, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • While Morris later signed the Declaration, Dickinson withheld his name.
    Hillel Italie, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • While Morris later signed the Declaration, Dickinson withheld his name.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • Or, to put it in terms the Patriots understood, roughly 200,000 musket balls of metal were secreted away.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026
  • Queens are raised eating royal jelly secreted from the glands of worker bees and scientists have long believed diet was the main key to making a monarch.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • For ordinary users, this means more personal information is collected, passed through more systems and retained in more databases, all in the name of preventing crime.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of 2004, at least 80% of the entrance fees paid onsite must be retained and used at the national park where the fees are collected.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • When your customers can't get banked anywhere else, the back-office cost becomes the moat.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The plane banked to the left after takeoff and crashed less than a minute later near houses, according to the flight tracking service Flightradar24.
    Antonin Utz, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • An off-duty officer spotted suspicious behavior that led TSA to discover a knife concealed inside a prosthetic leg at airport security.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • According to Woodward, some emails in question -- which had their senders and recipients concealed -- were redacted to protect the names of victims.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 2 July 2026
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“Coffered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffered. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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