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 Records also showed, according to the report, that Metayer boarded a Brightline train from Miami to Orlando within roughly 24 hours of the crash. — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 Eventually, an agent boarded the bus and fired pepper balls at the men, according to interviews with three of them. — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Water began to flood the streets of Baja California Sur on Monday hours after residents boarded up homes and set up embankments as Hurricane Polo bore down on the peninsula Monday, threatening high winds, floods and mudslides. — Megan Janetsky, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026 The Tifani and Majestic X are now off the coast of Brazil after they were boarded in the Indian Ocean in April. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 Windows had been boarded up to avoid glass shards hurting anyone in case of an explosion. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 Gonzalez boarded a plane from Fort Lauderdale to Puerto Rico with a one-way ticket on June 19. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 More than twenty-four hundred people in Yemen have boarded boats and fled across the Red Sea to Djibouti. — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 At this stage, Canadian broadcasters Radio-Canada and TFO have already boarded the project, and Quebec actress Mélissa Bédard is confirmed as lead voice cast. — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
  1. fed
  2. housed
  3. accommodated
  4. lodged
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  • Their populations were first threatened in the late 1800s when nonnative trout that fed on tadpoles were introduced to their habitats for recreational fishing.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • All of which fed many shareholders’ sense that they were being kept in the dark.
    — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of fed
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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
Definition of housed
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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
Definition of accommodated
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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
Definition of lodged

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