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dressed

  • past participle of dress.
  • past tense form of dress.

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Talk of dopamine and digital addiction is mostly rhetoric dressed as neuroscience.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

The doorbell went again and a walking sculpture dressed in an Anne Boleyn-style quilted dress with beaded face mask appeared.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

He held lengthy TED Talk-style briefings, dressed casually and engaged with journalists, trying to inject energy into Ukraine's war machine, four years into the Russian invasion.

From Barron's Jul. 16, 2026

His haul ended up including two taxidermy squirrels as well — one dressed as a sheriff and the other posed to look like it is drinking out of a Budweiser can.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

One morning in August 1954 Sadako ran outside into the street as soon as she was dressed.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr