Thesaurus results for BANQUETED

banqueted

verb

past tense of banquet

as in regaled

to entertain with a fancy meal banqueted the returning troops at the military base

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Turturro regaled attendees with stories about his impressive stage career.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026
Recurring bits like Opera Man, where Sandler, draped in a cape, regaled Weekend Update with off-key, operatic renditions of the news of the day, weren’t exactly tight political satire.

— Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2026

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Also honored was Pat Murphy, the manager of the World Series champion Milwaukee Brewers and someone who won 73% of his games while coaching at Notre Dame.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Researchers must again be able to plan work that takes years with reasonable confidence that commitments will be honored.

— Carole LaBonne, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026

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The king and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, are also said to have dined in the Great Hall.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2026
With a more complete model of its head and jaw structure, researchers are starting to understand how a hell chicken dined amid a time when much of the western United States was covered by humid forests.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of dined

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The team fed two independent infrared lasers into the chip, creating a partially coherent mixture.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
As researchers explained in a British Ornithologists’ Union blog post, the chicks had never flown farther than the entrances to their burrows, fed themselves or seen the open ocean before leaving the island.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of fed

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When the game was over, the Lakers had been feasted on by the Warriors, falling 112-95 game at Chase Center.

— Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026
The severity of their exposure was corroborated by the short life of cats, who feasted on the factory’s omnipresent rodents.

— Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026

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