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  • past tense form of mean.
  • past participle of mean.
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meant

[ment] / mɛnt /






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The extra costs of those trips meant Rosenthal and his wife had to cancel a planned road trip to Washington state for vacation.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

That meant an $815 million hit to ticket revenues, alone, Reuters reported at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It meant further editing, and McCarthy was deeply frustrated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But she said the ruling meant she could "get back to what matters most to me: being there for the people and communities I've always wanted to serve".

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

She was meant to have peeled that single mushroom from the ground, not yank out the entire troop.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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