boarding

verb

present participle of board
1
as in feeding
to provide food or meals for housed and boarded many foster children over the years

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2
as in housing
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 boarding Imagine families arriving from Orlando before boarding a Disney cruise. — Jack Kennedy, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026 Nicole Kidman rocks a curly hairstyle while boarding a private jet in Ibiza on July 15. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 But there seems to be very little awareness that others nearby may be trying to relax, read, eat or simply enjoy a few minutes of peace before boarding a flight. — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 16 July 2026 The main compartment has two zippered mesh pockets for effortless organization, while the exterior offers two more zippered pockets for stashing small items before going through TSA or boarding the plane. — Destinee Scott, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2026 With aesthetic tourism on the rise, boarding a flight for a better (and cheaper) upper bleph has become increasingly common. — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026 The 59-year-old actress was spotted boarding a plane in Ibiza, Spain. — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 15 July 2026 French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu tweets that five passengers from the country were evacuated from the ship and one of them exhibited symptoms after boarding the evacuation flight. — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 He was arrested early Saturday at a Bangkok airport before boarding a flight bound for Perth, Australia, and charged with raping a minor. — Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarding
  1. feeding
  2. housing
  3. catering
  4. lodging
  5. accommodating
  6. sheltering
  7. rooming
  8. camping
Verb
  • These would fall back to the center of the galaxy and form a swirling disk around its incumbent black hole, once again feeding it and triggering a new period of growth.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 July 2026
  • The fishermen’s problem To understand why a shark-feeding bill is moving through Congress, start with the fishermen.
    — Kate Waxman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2026
Definition of feeding
Verb
  • Esquire is one of only a handful of theaters housing the Grand Theatre projector that can roll through the film.
    — Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
  • The interior resembles a personal library, with shelves housing the brand’s chains, Foundation collection and 10 tenets alongside rows of books.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
Definition of housing
Verb
  • Separated from downtown Ho Chi Minh City by a bend in the Saigon River, Thảo Điền was once best known as the city’s expat enclave—a leafy neighborhood of villas, international schools, and cafés catering largely to foreign residents.
    — Dan Q. Dao, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
  • Road trippers will find public EV charging points in key market towns or at more than 50 self-catering cottages offering on-site charging.
    — Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of catering
Verb
  • The public official is accused of lodging without permission on two docked yachts that did not belong to her.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
  • Massanutten Resort Massanutten, Virginia The 6,000-acre, four-season Massanutten Resort in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley offers a range of lodging options to match any budget or group size.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 21 July 2026
Definition of lodging
Verb
  • This is important for accommodating NRIs operating across multiple tax regimes.
    — Anmol Goel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • The 289-footer is capable of accommodating up to 30 guests, with two owner’s apartments, VIP suites, and additional guest cabins.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 July 2026
Definition of accommodating
Verb
  • The city is also sheltering at least 100,000 people who fled violence elsewhere in the country.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • Cleaning Up Leaves in Early Spring Just like other pollinators, fireflies and their larvae also use fallen leaf litter as sheltering spots in spring.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2026
Definition of sheltering
Verb
  • The couple takes in a boarder, Herald Loomis, whose search for his missing wife draws the house into a reckoning with forces — both human and supernatural — that haunt everyone who is rooming there.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • The dispute — fueled by Fleming’s claims about Slusser’s health and academics and Slusser’s allegations about playing and rooming with a biological male — has triggered lawsuits and intense national scrutiny on the program.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 17 Dec. 2025
Definition of rooming
Verb
  • The city already refers those found sleeping or camping outside to area services, such as emergency housing, case management and food assistance.
    — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • More states are passing anti-camping laws Williams was one of two people arrested in the park on June 28 and charged under Tennessee's no-camping law — the only one in the country to make sleeping on public property a felony.
    — Marissa J. Lang, NPR, 21 July 2026
Definition of camping

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