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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Crews went floor to floor, hitting individual cubicles, offices and even coordinating with a restaurant also housed in the building.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Palisades originally housed an 805-megawatt reactor, which is now in the final technical stages of restarting.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026

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That would mean the new city, rather than the county, would have to identify where its share of the housing could be accommodated and establish the zoning and policies needed to allow it.

— Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
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

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The career included its hiccups, a not-yet-ready-for-primetime quarterback thrust into a starting role as a freshman, an on-campus protest in which the football team was lodged and, well, not as many wins as anyone involved would have liked.

— Sam McDowell October 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026
Thompson lodged criticisms for Jones’ Silicon Valley donors, shifting policy positions and associations with healthcare companies that were fined for denying care.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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