reward
noun
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
rewarded
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past participleof reward.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reward.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
rewardnouna sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
Example Sentences
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This phenomenon stems in part from the just-world cognitive bias, the tendency to believe that the world is fundamentally fair and that good people are rewarded while bad people are punished.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
“I’ve seen people be overlooked and I’ve seen things that have been rewarded that maybe you go, well, that’s not my taste.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Others say the market has rewarded AI stocks indiscriminately, even though some of them—especially memory-chip makers and cloud companies—are more speculative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
For the last several years, the market has rewarded companies when they announce a new, larger model, a larger data center, or a bigger AI-infrastructure commitment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
In those moments Mr. Kapasi used to believe that all was right with the world, that all struggles were rewarded, that all of life’s mistakes made sense in the end.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
