- past participle of give.
given
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The college route would have given her a prestigious degree, but also mounds of student debt and little to no practical experience—a dangerous position in a legal industry rushing to adopt AI productivity tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Luke Shaw: Hugged the touchline to provide an attacking outlet and linked well, but given too much ground to cover defensively.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Animals treated with R inulinivorans, meanwhile, had a greater proportion of larger fibers than mice given the other Roseburia species or no Roseburia.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
What I would say is, given all the money they have, is they certainly will be able to defend the lawsuit.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
When had Clare given the Afterlife any indication that he was ready to move on?
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
His thinking begins instead with three separate givens: God, world, human being.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
They call each other wives, because in 2025 same-sex marriage and parenting are givens, not distant fantasies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
But coach Bev Priestman suggested that growing parity means there are no givens.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
My criticism is not that these characterizations don’t ring true to me, but that they are givens enacted with such fidelity that they render the world static.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The givens, all I’d been taught, fell away like so many covers when you sit up in bed.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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