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sourced

sourced is the simple past and past participle of source.

Meaning of source

Verb

source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)

  1. To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
    • But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power.2023 July 12, Pip Dunn, “Class 99s: "ultimate Electro-Diesel"”, in RAIL, number 987, page 52
  2. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

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Phrases with sourced

Questions about sourced

What is sourced the simple past and past participle of?
Sourced is the simple past and past participle of source.

Words near sourced in the dictionary

  1. source-available
  2. sourceable
  3. sourcebook
  4. sourcebooks
  5. sourcecode
  6. sourced
  7. sourcehood
  8. sourceless
  9. sourcelessly
  10. sourcelessness
  11. Sourcemod

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sourced (page history and authors); source (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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