BILLETED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

billeted

verb

past tense of billet

as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter every colonial household was expected to billet a British soldier

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This will give you an opportunity to notice what should be housed elsewhere.

— Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 26 Sep. 2026
Instead, the agency housed an average of 16 detainees daily there this year, at a cost of millions of dollars, the report found.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026

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First, the law takes its time in responding to new technologies, figuring that new tools can be accommodated within existing ideas, rules, and doctrines.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
But, as seen in Piddington, that strategy can create challenges when a large asylum facility is proposed near a small community that has historically accommodated relatively few asylum seekers.

— Inaya Folarin Iman, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

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Thanks to home video and cable TV, the film, not accounted as a success in its time, has become lodged in the childhood memories of several generations.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Netflix, like Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, has lodged an appeal to France’s highest court, the Council of State (Conseil d’Etat), to protest against new sub-quota investment obligations in documentary and animation.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026

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