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as in boarded
to provide food or meals for
a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry
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as in provided
to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption
all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article
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as in ate
to take a meal
an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively
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Recent Examples of fed
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
The property features over a mile of frontage along Fall River and controls two of the river’s primary spring-fed tributaries — Spring Creek and Lava Creek, according to Hall and Hall.
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David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
Dogs that are fed outside are at higher risk as well.
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Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
The cameras, not so much hunting as scavenging, fed the numbers and their corresponding locations into a national database owned by a company that sells the information.
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Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
By the close of day two, all these results are fed into the Tulåh Life Index algorithm to evaluate my physical, mental and emotional health.
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Susan D'arcy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
In the basement of Powell Library, Ray Bradbury fed coins into a pay to play typewriter to write Fahrenheit 451.
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Rent a tube and hop into this spring-fed jewel that stays a refreshing 72 degrees Fahrenheit year-round and let the flow carry you past ancient cypress trees, sunning turtles, and wading birds.
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Terry Ward,
Travel + Leisure,
17 June 2026
All activities are observed and analysed by the therapist and fed back to the family.
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Hannah Silverman,
Parents,
17 June 2026
Verb
Instead of staying in the area of the ranch where the giraffes are fed, Gracie decided to forage on higher terrain and climbed rocks to escape.
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
The property features over a mile of frontage along Fall River and controls two of the river’s primary spring-fed tributaries — Spring Creek and Lava Creek, according to Hall and Hall.
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David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
Dogs that are fed outside are at higher risk as well.
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Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
The cameras, not so much hunting as scavenging, fed the numbers and their corresponding locations into a national database owned by a company that sells the information.
—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
By the close of day two, all these results are fed into the Tulåh Life Index algorithm to evaluate my physical, mental and emotional health.
—
Susan D'arcy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
In the basement of Powell Library, Ray Bradbury fed coins into a pay to play typewriter to write Fahrenheit 451.
—
Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Rent a tube and hop into this spring-fed jewel that stays a refreshing 72 degrees Fahrenheit year-round and let the flow carry you past ancient cypress trees, sunning turtles, and wading birds.
—
Terry Ward,
Travel + Leisure,
17 June 2026
All activities are observed and analysed by the therapist and fed back to the family.
—
Hannah Silverman,
Parents,
17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fed
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Newsom said the state tracker is the first of its kind in the nation as California companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have exploded in growth and simultaneously warned that their products could render most white-collar jobs obsolete.
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The feels-like temperature tracker in South Florida on Thursday, June 25, 2026.
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It was boarded up and moved off-site during construction, then returned as a nostalgic centerpiece at the Mission Pacific.
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It’s also understood that Amazon had seen all the early iterations of the script, before Guadagnino boarded the project.
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The ceasefire provided little respite, Faqih said.
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HelloAmino founder Aelie Swift told Fortune a new supplier provided an ingredient that was slightly different, but completely changed the composition of its products.
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On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.
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While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.
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The team's 33-15 loss gave it a 2-11 record, which is the worst nark in the NFC.
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You’re automatically dubbed a narc, a kiss-ass, a too-cool.
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The Giants catered to their LGBTQ fans and pandered their tails off.
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Popular restaurants San Sabino and Don Angie catered the event.
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But Hilton also supplied fans and coolness in a literal sense.
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Most of the electricity will come from large gas turbines supplied by Chevron's partner, GE Vernova.
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In Nuuk, Horn dined multiple times with Pele Broberg, the head of the Naleraq Party.
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The pair dined at a Mexican restaurant followed by dessert at a cookie shop.
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“Fed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fed. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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