forayed

Definition of forayednext
past tense of foray
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Verb
  • Magyar has called for all of Orbán’s cronies in the government to resign and has committed to holding to account those who plundered Hungary.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company’s management, has generated a painful litany of woes.
    Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Investigators said that Scott walked through an unlocked front door, stripped off his clothes and went straight into a sleeping child’s bedroom.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Those allegations finally resulted in his being stripped of his police powers.
    Jamie Kalven, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, expands on a 2016 law, signed by President Barack Obama, that permits victims and descendants of victims of the Holocaust to lay legal claim to works of art looted by the Nazis or sold to the Nazis under false pretenses.
    Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • All the State Forensic Authority’s DNA analysis labs were looted and destroyed in the fighting.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.
    Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • North Texas — whose roster was pillaged in the portal and saw its top players leave for Oklahoma State alongside former head coach Eric Morris — have signed 42 transfers.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • In a landscape of sequels and overly pillaged IP, the Stranger Things finale is finite and close-ended, the credits rolling once and for all.
    Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • He was sacked at Fenerbahce after losing in the Champions League play-offs to, well, Benfica, who hired him a couple of weeks later.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert was sacked 54 times in 2025, third most in the NFL, and finding offensive line depth was among the team’s priorities entering the draft.
    Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • An offense built on length has been ravaged by injuries and some sort of affliction that has the Mets regularly hitting the ball into the ground instead of in the air.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In the years since, the cartel's two warring factions have ravaged the northern Mexican state in their struggle for territorial control.
    CBS News, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The assault killed at least seventeen people, including a twelve-year-old boy, wounded dozens, and destroyed buildings.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The 24 staff members in Ruiz Verduzco’s office are tasked with assisting victims and their families, establishing programs in communities destroyed by violence and drumming up financial support.
    Molly Quell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Forayed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forayed. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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