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as in classified
to arrange or assign according to type
the campers were ranged in patrols, each patrol consisting of girls in a certain age group
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as in roamed
to move about from place to place aimlessly
she let her dog off the leash and whistled for him every now and then to make sure he didn't range out of hearing
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as in arranged
to put into a particular arrangement
chairs were ranged round the perimeter of the room
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Recent Examples of ranged
Blue Jays outfielder Myles Straw threw a perfect bottom of the eighth with pitches that ranged between 38 mph and 61 mph.
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ABC News,
4 July 2026
The last time that ratio ranged so high was in the mid-2000s, at the peak of the millennial housing bubble, Pew reports.
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Daniel De Visé,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
The price of this World Cup is crushing The moment FIFA announced the price points for the tickets to attend any of these World Cup matches, the responses ranged from rage to anger to resignation.
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Mac Engel
july 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 July 2026
This year, the cuts ranged from the city’s annual Juneteenth celebration and the National WWI Museum and Memorial to a local dental program and a police training facility in Lee’s Summit.
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Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
The low estimates ranged from $300 to $3,000, with five of them failing to sell.
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Sarah Douglas,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2026
The children ranged in age from 1 1/2 years to 18 years old and included both boys and girls, officials said.
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CBS News,
1 July 2026
Baumann’s two-year sentence on Wednesday is the lowest so far of any of the defendants, including last week’s batch, whose individual prison terms ranged from 30 to 100 years.
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Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2026
Rumors have ranged from a small, fairytale wedding at her house in Rhode Island to an intimate New York City celebration with no plus-ones before the Garden buzz took center stage.
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Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
ABC News,
4 July 2026
The last time that ratio ranged so high was in the mid-2000s, at the peak of the millennial housing bubble, Pew reports.
—
Daniel De Visé,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
The price of this World Cup is crushing The moment FIFA announced the price points for the tickets to attend any of these World Cup matches, the responses ranged from rage to anger to resignation.
—
Mac Engel
july 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 July 2026
This year, the cuts ranged from the city’s annual Juneteenth celebration and the National WWI Museum and Memorial to a local dental program and a police training facility in Lee’s Summit.
—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
The low estimates ranged from $300 to $3,000, with five of them failing to sell.
—
Sarah Douglas,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2026
The children ranged in age from 1 1/2 years to 18 years old and included both boys and girls, officials said.
—
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Baumann’s two-year sentence on Wednesday is the lowest so far of any of the defendants, including last week’s batch, whose individual prison terms ranged from 30 to 100 years.
—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2026
Rumors have ranged from a small, fairytale wedding at her house in Rhode Island to an intimate New York City celebration with no plus-ones before the Garden buzz took center stage.
—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranged
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Even in Caracas, where only five buildings collapsed, Rodríguez said at least 30 additional structures have already been classified as unsafe.
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Royalties and license fees are classified as ordinary income under the tax code, taxed at the same rates as wages, not the preferential long-term capital gains rates that apply to appreciated assets held over a year.
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The age of sail, when pirates like Johnny Depp’s fictional Jack Sparrow roamed the seven seas, ended about 200 years ago.
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Earlier this month, dozens of police officers, hunters and city officials were deployed in the city of Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, to catch a bear that roamed the streets for four days, forcing mass school closures.
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Estimates from researchers have varied from as high as 39,000 annually to as low as 2,000.
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Before then, such cases were prosecuted under a patchwork of local ordinances that varied across the country.
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The Live Nation website arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
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As visitors like Fulkerson settled into folding chairs arranged along the same grassy knoll where John Brown and his followers fought their way into the red-brick armory, Kerwin rose, stepped to the microphone and looked out at the crowd gathered before her.
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MoneyLion ranked the nation's 50 most affluent suburbs by household income, as measured in the 2024 American Community Survey.
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Sherman’s March, which won the Grand Jury prize at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, was ranked as one of the highest-grossing documentary films of all time until the mid-1990s.
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The 1,200-pound giraffe, named Gracie, wandered away from her unfenced habitat at Cedar Hollow Ranch in Leakey, Texas, on June 12.
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At the time, the ranch said the giraffe had likely slipped through an enclosure gate and wandered into surrounding private ranchland.
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Volunteers organized the supplies — toothbrushes, baby wipes, instant soup and many other items — and loaded them into boxes, drawing hearts on the outside with magic marker.
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Pastor Jeremy Tuck of Connection Point Church organized a free gas giveaway Sunday in Forest Park, handing out $20 gas cards to the first 250 drivers at a local RaceTrac station.
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In a small number of cases, similar ancestries were grouped together.
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The same pattern shows up in founders rarely grouped together.
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“Ranged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranged. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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