Thesaurus results for SWAPPED

swapped

verb

past tense of swap

as in exchanged

to give up (something) and take something else in return we swapped our other lawn mower for our neighbors' old snowblower

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Recent Examples of swapped Roberts had swapped Hernández and slumping Will Smith in the batting order, moving Hernández up to third and Smith down to fifth. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Factories first swapped the central steam plant that drove every machine through a system of rotating shafts for an electric motor. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 The spacecraft will spend roughly two days catching up to the ISS, where a recent personnel rotation swapped the astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-12 mission with those of Crew-13. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The actor swapped her thematically appropriate Sense and Sensibility press tour style for something a little more contemporary today in New York, trading in her corseted dresses and Napoleon jackets for a pair of au courant graphic T-shirts. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026 That truck, too, was wrapped in black vinyl and had the wheels swapped out. — Logan Smith, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 Each club swapped power-play goals in the second period, with the 20-year-old rookie Connelly punching in the puck after Stone's pinpoint cross-ice and Panarin answering with a shot from the high slot. — ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026 Jeremy Allen White swapped a Tambour for a Monterey for the Paris premiere of The Social Reckoning. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2026 Mamdani and Chow swapped notes on dealing with the constraints placed on them by their state and provincial governors, and on their respective battles over renters’ rights and the high costs of living in their cities. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026

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No payment is requested or exchanged at any point during the selection, evaluation or ranking process; inclusion is based solely on the methodology.

— Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Fresh off the heels of Thom Browne’s New York Fashion Week presentation, where models and dancers embodied bugs and butterflies, the designer exchanged emails with Tyler Matthew Oyer about his creative process.

— Tyler Matthew Oyer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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So might be Haaland, who asked to be substituted midway through the second half of Norway's final Nations League game, but that might have been because of fatigue.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Ronaldo started that game but was substituted in the 67th minute.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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In hindsight, the Chicks—the Dixie Chicks until the band changed its name in 2020—were practically engineered to stand in opposition to the country establishment.

— Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2026
DuVernay makes history organic by capturing how the very texture of people’s lives was changed by the law.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026

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