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The word 'keyed' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used both as a verb and an adjective. As a verb, 'keyed' means to adjust or synchronize something using a key, or to enter information using a keyboard. For example: - She keyed in the password to access her account. - The mechanic keyed the ignition to start the car. As an adjective, 'keyed' describes something that is based on or related to a key. For example: - The keyed entry system allowed only authorized personnel to enter the building. - The keyed lock was difficult to pick. Here is an example sentence using both forms of the word 'keyed': After she keyed in the code, the door was unlocked by the keyed lock, allowing her to enter the building.
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keyed
verb
Past of key
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Tom Baker, a veteran British actor, did not have the slightest idea what he was saying his voice was generated by a computer, which spliced sounds together to enable him to read out text messages keyed into mobile phones.
Brain areas are also keyed to certain skills.
The Rangers took things a step further by choreographing the action: they had plotted out a game, recorded it, and keyed in dialogue that appeared as running text.
In fact, they were shot separately on video and then keyed into 37 pastiche painted backgrounds.
It is only when you have keyed in the number, he explained, that the telephone will work.
These are constantly keyed into the computer, which then displays where and when they have occurred on a colour-coded map, enabling the police to monitor crime trends as they happen and to spot high-crime areas.
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Last month, when a broker at Mizuho Securities mis-keyed a share order, the TSE was unable to help reverse it, causing ¥40 billion ($330m) of losses for Mizuho.
The gamelan selunding, an ensemble with iron-keyed metallophones (like xylophones but with metal keys), plays ritual music, and the gamelan angklung, so called because it formerly included tube rattles, or angklung, is used to accompany long processions to symbolic baths near the river.
In Austria and Italy after 1801 there was a vogue for the keyed trumpet, with side holes covered by padded keys.
A six-keyed piccolo in D♭ was formerly used in military bands to facilitate playing in flat keys.
Keys were added from about 1780 to approximately 1840, when the Paris models of Jean-Nicholas Savary, with additional improvements in bore and mechanism, became the 20-keyed standard.
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