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as in fed
to provide food or meals for
housed and boarded many foster children over the years
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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
This bonkers show from the darkly comedic mind of artist Jhonen Vasquez must have boarded the fastest spaceship from the planet Conventia, arriving far too early on our television sets.
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Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Officials at the embassy in Manama continued running convoys and ensuring everyone had visas required to cross the border until Thursday of that week, when the final eight people and 19 pets left to be evacuated were boarded onto vehicles and shuttled out of Bahrain.
—Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
Senior leadership boarded the plane and welcomed the families home.
—Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026
Following the investigation, students safely re-boarded the bus and continued their normal dismissal route, according to Mangs.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
On January 29, seven men boarded American Airlines Flight 5342 to fly home by way of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, often known by its airport code, DCA.
—Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
Last June, my family and I wasted nine miserable hours there as our flight was boarded and then delayed and then deboarded and then canceled.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
Beta Film has boarded and is across distribution.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
Across Oklahoma, apartment complexes sit boarded up.
—Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 24 Mar. 2026
Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Officials at the embassy in Manama continued running convoys and ensuring everyone had visas required to cross the border until Thursday of that week, when the final eight people and 19 pets left to be evacuated were boarded onto vehicles and shuttled out of Bahrain.
—Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
Senior leadership boarded the plane and welcomed the families home.
—Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026
Following the investigation, students safely re-boarded the bus and continued their normal dismissal route, according to Mangs.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
On January 29, seven men boarded American Airlines Flight 5342 to fly home by way of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, often known by its airport code, DCA.
—Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
Last June, my family and I wasted nine miserable hours there as our flight was boarded and then delayed and then deboarded and then canceled.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
Beta Film has boarded and is across distribution.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
Across Oklahoma, apartment complexes sit boarded up.
—Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 24 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
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Whether or not Ye used AI to make Bully, the album nonetheless feels like decades of his music fed into a computer program.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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But fortunately, the larvae happily fed on the tiny crustaceans called copepods that the aquarists gave them.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2026
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The image appears to show the bottom of Orion's service module where its main engine and auxiliary thrusters are housed.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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And, most people who are living on the street are actively trying to become housed.—
Benjamin F. Henwood,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
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Tehran’s response to the US and Israeli war has shattered any remaining belief in the Gulf that the Iranian regime could be accommodated.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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The cabin layout that produced the fastest evacuation time accommodated a total of 152 passengers with two rows of first-class seats at the front, and 30 elderly passengers evenly distributed throughout the cabin.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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His official complaint has been lodged with the judges of the French War Crimes Unit and concerns Israel’s bombing of a residential building in Beirut on November 26 2024, which killed seven civilians.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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Aerial footage of the aftermath showed wreckage scattered across the roof, including the plane’s right wing still lodged in the roof, while the fuselage sat crumpled in the backyard.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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