as in considered
decided on as a result of careful thought
a studied move by the company that was designed to put the competition out of business
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as in researched
to use the mind to acquire knowledge
you'll have to study hard and learn all about the Revolutionary War in order to pass the history test
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as in learned
to commit to memory
having carefully studied the document, he could repeat what it said exactly
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as in pondered
to give serious and careful thought to
scientists who study the origin of the universe
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Recent Examples of studied
Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
The researchers also looked at alternatives to sulfur but found problems with each of the studied chemical compounds.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Not as freaks to be studied from afar, mimicked, and exploited for other people’s creative whims or amusement, but as complex and whole parts of the world worth exploring and celebrating.
—Sarah Kurchak, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
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Few images are more studied than Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) at dawn before Tiffany’s, coffee in hand, reflection haloed in pearls.
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Like many aspiring authors, Kuang spent a stint writing fanfiction, and later studied creative writing, with a focus in screenwriting, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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Credit scores typically range from 300 to 850, with scores of around 670 and higher considered good.—
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Still, others are happiest at a considered farm stay or upstate hideaway, where the pleasure lies in quiet mornings and befriending animals on the farm.—
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Kevin DeLuca, an assistant professor of political science at Yale University who has researched pink slime websites, conducted an experiment that showed subjects both real unbiased news sites and others produced by Metric Media.—
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What a slap in the face to the folks who’ve studied, who’ve researched, who’ve invented, who’ve saved lives, who’ve fought for their lives, who’ve lost their lives, who’ve devoted their lives to keeping that last group as small as possible.—
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With minimal task-specific data, new capabilities can reportedly be learned and deployed within hours.—
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Matthew Stafford learned of his first-ever first-team All-Pro selection on Saturday.—
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Advertisement China has long pondered surgical strikes against Taiwan’s leadership, though any such move is likely to be self-defeating, given the island is a sustained democracy.—
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Early in their planning for the trip to Alaska, the couple pondered taking a cruise.—
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Ian Terry won Big Brother season 14 at just 21 years old, becoming the show’s youngest champion after outmaneuvering veteran players with a quiet — but highly calculated — game.—
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Jesse Plemons leans into unhinged intensity, while Emma Stone counters with calculated control.—
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The platform analyzed search terms during peak resolution planning season—December 1-30, 2025—by examining 70 total keywords.—
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Cable networks again analyzed an ICE officer’s shooting of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, this time with the new angle from footage that was taken by the federal agent.—
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This documentary has the inspirational movie recipe memorized.—
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By the time the band hit Warped Tour that summer, fans had already memorized all the words to the new album.—
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Hadn’t really contemplated it — was doing a bunch of other things.—
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To that point, the settlement attempts to correct an economic harm and cannot address possible harms that are contemplated by other areas of law.—
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“Studied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/studied. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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