trespassed

past tense of trespass
as in wandered
to commit an offense I consider him to be trespassing against all of us when he trespasses against any one of us

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Recent Examples of trespassed An investigation revealed the suspect had trespassed and peered into a home through a glass door. Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025 There were, after all, the men who trespassed, as if my young body was theirs to forage. R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Last year Google fired 28 employees after some trespassed at the company's facilities. Jordan Novet, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025 Cincinnati police say two men trespassed in Paycor Stadium overnight, with one accused of trying to steal a barbecue smoker. David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • In Jacksonville, Florida, a 5-year-old wandered away from home in the early morning hours.
    Ronnie Li, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Despite its common name, this creature wasn’t simply a lion that wandered into the Americas.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Cal Fire’s newest proposal for Jackson, dubbed AMEX, targets nearly 500 acres with a patchwork of small clearcuts and is silent on tree sizes to be felled.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Footage from the 1966 Italian documentary Africa Addio, of a herd of elephants being felled by both ground hunters and sharpshooters in helicopters, is distressing to watch.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Regulators are questioning whether OpenAI has strayed from its original public-benefit mission in favor of commercial growth—recent suicides linked to ChatGPT have also complicated the issue.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This is the furthest Supermassive Games has strayed from the cinematic and orchestrated vision that defined the last 10 years of the studio.
    Echo Apsey, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Others were offended by the variety of items in the dish.
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The novel, published to immediate controversy in India—an obscenity suit was filed over its portrayal of an intercaste romance—offended her Syrian Christian kin, who grumbled about misrepresentation.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Trespassed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespassed. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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