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 Meanwhile, Schettino boarded a lifeboat and abandoned the cruise ship. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 14 July 2026 Later that evening, Lidia and a group of other detainees were boarded onto a bus and driven to an airport tarmac. — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 According to the latest available rail passenger statistics, a grand total of 76 people have alighted or boarded at Shippea Hill in the previous 12 months. — Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026 By then, the man had traveled roughly 200 miles by bus to Dublin Airport and boarded a flight to Istanbul, according to the Irish Independent. — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026 Investigators said two operatives from Russia’s military traveled to Britain under aliases, smeared the poison on the front door of Skripal’s home and boarded a flight back to Moscow. — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 11 July 2026 Tracy had an idea to make the Rafaela announcement just as the team boarded. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 11 July 2026 With assistance from California State Parks and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit, Roseville Police boarded a patrol boat and found the suspect operating the vessel on the lake. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026 The sources said Machado had already boarded the aircraft and was preparing for departure when the process was unexpectedly halted. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
  1. fed
  2. housed
  3. accommodated
  4. lodged
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  • Jade Shuey, 21, one of three individuals who were arrested following the child’s discovery, said that the young boy was usually fed through the gate and occasionally went longer than a week without a bath, WGAL reported, citing an affidavit.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
  • Power comes courtesy of three electric motors rated at a resounding 1,582 hp, and fed by a second-generation blade battery with a 76 kWh capacity for a best range of 254 miles.
    — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 13 July 2026
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  • The Sacramento Homeless Union, a local of the California Homeless Union, represents 4,600 homeless, formerly homeless and marginally-housed people in the Sacramento area, the suit said.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
  • The burn took place at Rocket Lab's Archimedes Test Complex, housed at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 July 2026
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  • In a single event, the ridge accommodated nearly 40 years’ worth of plate motion.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 8 July 2026
  • Those needs are easily accommodated through thoughtful exceptions easily administered by teachers and school staff.
    — Paul Jester, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
Definition of accommodated
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  • During the search, BPD said officers found a ghost gun that contained one spent shell casing lodged in the chamber and was loaded with 16 live rounds in a large-capacity magazine.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 16 July 2026
  • Devers furthered the Giants’ cause with a ground-rule double that lodged itself under the padding along the right-field line, scoring Schmitt.
    — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 10 July 2026
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