taken down

past participle of take down
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Recent Examples of taken down Controversy is swirling in one Long Island village after Pride flags were taken down just as celebrations were ramping up. Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 15 June 2026 The report, which has now been taken down, has been referenced by multiple customer service publications and a major newspaper in the Czech Republic. Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 14 June 2026 De Freitas's social media profile was later taken down. Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026 Thousands of listings in Chicago were taken down from Zillow when the regional listing service in my area, Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), decided to cut off the information from Zillow in a play to protect private listings and serve those who benefit from the exclusivity agenda. Cam Lippert-Roof, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026 Defense officials raced to get the list taken down just minutes after it had been posted. Kate O'Keeffe, Fortune, 8 June 2026 Most, but not all, of the packages had been taken down in the hours following the incident. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026 The treehouse was taken down before the city could act on the report. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026 The Dodgers promoted a seven-part series looking back at the 2025 drive to their second straight championship on their YouTube channel, but the episodes were only up for a few hours on Thursday and then were taken down, along with the promotional material on the team’s social media accounts. Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for taken down
Verb
  • In the ongoing fight for women’s equal rights, Pawol had proved a female baseball umpire can be second-guessed, proved wrong and humiliated by technology and mocked by howling fans on social media just like a man can.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
  • Villanova humiliated UConn, winning 81-61, after building out a 31-point lead.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Crews knocked down hot spots inside the containment lines, slowing the fire’s spread.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
  • While the sticker shock of what is typically a $13 trip enraged the masses—the price was initially announced at $150 in April, before it got knocked down to 98 bucks in the face of public backlash—some observers, particularly those from Europe, scoffed at all the outrage.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • The organization noted that Skydive Kansas City is a member in good standing of the sport’s governing body, and is cooperating with local authorities and federal investigators to determine the cause of the crash.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • All stats through Monday morning unless noted.
    Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • The crisis shamed the government, which was forced by its ombudsman to shutter the makeshift camp and relocate the migrants.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 June 2026
  • The rest of us were shamed by omission.
    Laura Washington, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • For younger readers who have grown up entirely online, physical books are a rare tangible object disconnected from screens.
    Josh Rivera, USA Today, 14 June 2026
  • They’re disconnected from them.
    ByBryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • Fewer than a third of those processes were written down anywhere.
    Omer Qureshi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Nothing can be written down, and no one can know everything, so much of the dialogue is a bewildering avalanche of codewords and code names.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a reckoning and could have sunk into tropes of the season’s theme.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • Graham was once again unavailable due to an ankle injury sustained against FSU, and the Gators were sunk by just two points at home, missing out on the SEC Championship Game.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • The Michigan law enforcement agency said the troopers located the vehicle, broken down, on Michigan Highway 28 near Michigan Highway 221.
    Nick Lentz, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • Some guys got kind of broken down from it.
    Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026

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“Taken down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taken%20down. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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