Examples of stated in a Sentence
Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
But Chhabria said the harm in this case is directly related to the stated purpose of the product.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
The stated goal of Worldcoin is to give people a form of identification that could never be stolen or duplicated.
—Joseph Wilson, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2024
Yet this has never been a stated goal of any education policy reform in the past half century.
—Brandon Busteed, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
An effort to cut down on users improperly sharing Disney+ accounts in particular helps to bolster Iger’s stated goal to make the streaming service profitable by the end of 2024.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
At present, however, PG&E appears to have failed to even come close to its stated goal of reining in yearly increases in monthly bills so that annual increases are in the 2% to 4% range.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
The stated purpose of that expedition was to lay telegraph lines, but Kennan was actually motivated by the same thing that drove so many Victorian explorers: fragile masculinity.
—W. M. Akers, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
The stated purpose of torture was to get information and obtain confessions, but the real purpose of torture was to maintain power through fear.
—Christopher Justin Einolf, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2023
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Word History
1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Stated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stated. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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