BILLETING Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

billeting

verb

present participle of billet

as in housing

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

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But data centers – massive physical facilities housing the computer infrastructure needed by big tech companies for artificial intelligence, the internet and other programs – are now a political flashpoint fueled by a public backlash.

— Chris Brennan, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Leaders say the new hub was designed to make those services easier to access by housing them in one location.

— Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

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That’s true even while lodging in a dorm room at Missouri Western State University, home of the Chiefs’ annual summer training camp.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
The criminal complaint alleges that Castro fired a gun at the front door of a home in Minneapolis, striking a victim in the leg before lodging in a child’s bedroom wall, and then knowingly provided false information to an officer about it.

— Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026

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Before most of his teammates arrived at Oriole Park at Camden Yards the next morning, Kremer was packed and boarding a flight to Seattle to join the Twins.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
Alevtina Soboleva, 59, was traveling with her adult daughter in New York state on July 20 and was detained by ICE agents at Buffalo Niagara International Airport before boarding a flight to San Francisco.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

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