squared away

past tense of square away

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for squared away
Verb
  • Details of the deal are yet to be worked out.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For older students, the plan hasn't quite worked out the way it was supposed to.
    Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The two countries struck a trade deal in late July, which calls for 15% tariffs on goods from South Korea, but the finer details are still being hammered out in ongoing talks.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • During a particularly difficult budget year, several lawmakers went to South Lake Tahoe casinos while top leaders hammered out the final details.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Look for antimicrobial liners that are designed to prevent mold and mildew growth.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But instruments onboard the spacecraft weren't designed to distinguish between molecules forged in the moon's presumably deep ocean and those cooked up in the icy shell.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Was this planned over cocktails?
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Mexico's government has also proposed to raise tariffs on vehicles coming from Asia, particularly China, to 50% from the current 20% as part of a broad overhaul of import levies that the government planned to protect its local industries.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These shifting climates intimately shaped the biosphere over this span (and vice versa), and in occasional terrifying pulses, threatened to end it.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • One of the earliest poetic works that collectively shaped us is the Shahnameh, an epic poem by the Persian poet Ferdowsi.
    Fatemeh Jamalpour, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Watson and Doubs were both drafted in 2022.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Which is true, but Mahomes was still the product of evaluation and development — a three-star high school athlete who was not even the first QB drafted that year.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Squared away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squared%20away. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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