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demanded

  • past participle
    of demand.
    demand
    verb (used with object)
    to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right.
  • past tense form
    of demand.
    demand
    verb (used with object)
    to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right.

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He arrived in Florida Wednesday after dodging Brazilian authorities who demanded his passports.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Complications and byzantine controversies helped stymie the union in its adolescence, with Huerta usually supporting Chávez, even as he became distracted from the union’s central work and demanded absolute power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Recreating such an enormous portion of cosmic history demanded extraordinary computing resources.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Last week Uefa demanded that Fifa release all key documents relating to FFE by 2 November, with Uefa general secretary Theodore Theodoridis saying that the organisation had failed to address "a number of fundamental questions".

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Loud was part of her, grating against a wrongness she perceived but couldn’t identify, something in her family that had no name or face but demanded to make a sound through her.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith