boarded

verb

past tense of board
1
as in fed
to provide food or meals for housed and boarded many foster children over the years

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2
as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found

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Recent Examples of boarded Every hero’s journey requires major movement, and in 2000, Rosales boarded a plane bound for New York. — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The family claimed Nordquist was planning to fly back to Minnesota within two weeks, but never boarded his return flight, court documents show. — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 The trooper handled the emergency call and boarded the Sugar Island Vehicle Ferry back to the mainland. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 Only a handful of passengers boarded the flight to Kansas City from Newark. — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026 Loco Films has boarded sales on Georgian filmmaker Levan Koguashvili’s drama Guria ahead of its world premiere in the Spotlight section of the Venice Film Festival and unveiled a first trailer. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026 Following the game, the team boarded a red-eye flight back to Newark Liberty International Airport. — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 After 49 years in America, Park packed his life into two suitcases and a golf bag and boarded a one-way flight to South Korea, leaving behind his two children, a son, 29, and a daughter, 25. — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026 Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Emmy-winning producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Dax Dasilva have boarded Werewolf in the Waves as executive producers, according to the Hollywood Reporter. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
  1. fed
  2. housed
  3. accommodated
  4. lodged
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  • Nicastro made recordings of a number of cat meows when the pets were in different states — being fed, for instance, or brushed.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Tannebaum and analysts Jimbo Fisher, Eric Mac Lain and Eddie Royal were being fed airtime by the handful — six minutes, then eight, then whatever came next — filling each stretch until someone in production told them to move.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • In 2023, Campbell’s closed its corporate headquarters in Ballantyne, which had once housed about 1,300 corporate employees.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026
  • An elevator ride to the fourth floor brings you to where most of the museum’s collection is housed.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of housed
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  • Custom inscriptions could be accommodated, but off-site, noted owner Donna Muhr.
    — Jim Dudlicek, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Her school from fourth to seventh grade, Colegio San Agustín Makati, accommodated her tournament schedule.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of accommodated
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  • That same month, another whale, this one a juvenile, was found lifeless and lodged among woody debris in a Washington State river, miles from the ocean.
    — Ainslie Cruickshank, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Atlanta drivers were left shocked late Sunday night after a driver's legs were seen dangling from a vehicle lodged under an overpass.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of lodged

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