boarded

past tense of board

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Recent Examples of boarded The Jayhawks defeated Wichita State on Monday in Wichita, drove back to Lawrence on Tuesday morning, then boarded the bus for Lexington late Tuesday afternoon. Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026 Following their royal wedding, which was watched by 750 million viewers around the world, the couple boarded the royal yacht Britannia for a 12-day tour of the Mediterranean. Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026 In May 1943 a musician with the birth name McKinley Morganfield and the nickname Muddy Waters boarded a train in Clarksdale, Mississippi. René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Earlier this year, a passenger boarded a Southwest Airlines flight with a robot companion, later prompting the carrier to ban robots from its planes. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 July 2026 When Danny and Rosie Rubino boarded their flight from Toronto to Aruba to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary, they were disappointed to be going alone. Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 29 July 2026 On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. Tariq Malik, Space.com, 27 July 2026 April 4, 2022, less than six weeks after Russian forces launched their attack on Ukraine, officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil, the FBI and Homeland Security boarded Tango, a 255-foot superyacht in the Spanish port city of Palma de Mallorca. Giacomo Tognini, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 Last week, a similar notice was issued after the United States Navy intercepted and boarded a ship in the Gulf of Oman. CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
Verb
  • Before policies were in place, employees pasted client data into ChatGPT, fed proprietary code into public models and uploaded meeting recordings without a second thought.
    Dmitriy Stepanov, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • To create the immersive art at Dataland, the artist fed images and sounds from museum archives, labs and even his own travels to the Brazilian Amazon into a custom AI model.
    Chloe Veltman, NPR, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • Confederate Memorial State Historic Site Confederate Memorial State Historic Site once housed the Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri, which cared for veterans in need.
    Zuri Primos July 26, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • The Simpsons and Family Guy started making exclusive episodes for Disney+ and Hulu, where their libraries are housed, respectively, when the series’ longtime broadcast network Fox a couple of years ago started ordering shorter seasons.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Up to 16 satellites … Before the award, a feasibility study was conducted to confirm that CubeSats could be safely accommodated as secondary payloads aboard an Ariane 6 flight.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
  • In a single event, the ridge accommodated nearly 40 years’ worth of plate motion.
    Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 8 July 2026
Verb
  • The man with almost no injury was writhing in agony, while the man with a four-inch nail lodged near his brain kept working for six days, not even realizing the nail was there.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Aerial footage of the crash showed the front part of the truck lodged into the side of the building.
    Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 30 July 2026

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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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