BOARDING Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

boarding

verb

present participle of board

as in feeding

to provide food or meals for housed and boarded many foster children over the years

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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 Investigators found a video showing a customer boarding a plane in Havana bound for Fort Lauderdale, along with messages celebrating arrivals on the Cancun-Fort Lauderdale route and photographs of passports and airline tickets. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026 For Harry, a typical workday involves boarding the subway and identifying the easy targets. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Oct. 2026 According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Waymo robotaxis repeatedly passed stopped school buses in Austin, Texas, during the 2025–26 school year, while their stop signs were extended and students were boarding or exiting. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Oct. 2026 Bellisario, after boarding Lionsgate in 2014, has overseen TV casting, including for hit series like The Hunting Wives, The Studio, Ghosts, Acapulco and Love and Death. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026 In an area of the Mojave Desert, cargo thefts are a pervasive problem, with thieves boarding slow-moving freight trains to steal high-value merchandise, sometimes slashing an air brake hose to bring the railcars to an emergency stop. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026 Near the Saint-Lazare train station Saturday, Akram Ahmed, a 34-year-old contractor, was boarding up an optician’s shop. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 Near the Saint-Lazare train station Saturday, Akram Ahmed, a contractor, was boarding up an optician’s shop. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2026 Cinépolis aims to increase its slate of Mexican pics to 12 a year, boarding some at their development phase. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

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Euro zone shows 'unexpected resilience' The European Central Bank voted to hold interest rates steady on Thursday, saying a shock from higher energy prices was not yet feeding into second-round effects in the wider economy.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
Did the band’s combustibility — and the very different personalities of its four members — end up feeding its music?

— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2026

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James was taken to the Miami Detention Center in Bunker Hill, Indiana, a maximum-security prison that had recently started housing up to 1,000 ICE detainees under a state-federal partnership.

— Ryan J. Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
Data centers are key components in artificial intelligence infrastructure, housing the computing resources used to train AI models.

— Barbara A. Trish, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

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Moments later, an unbothered Brown flung himself around the stadium, catering directly to his adoring, unwavering fans.

— Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Poland also has over 86,000 places of refuge offering a lower level of protection such as basements, underground garages or subway stations, and catering for around 23 million people.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026

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That office is gone, and much of what replaced it is better, more flexible and more accommodating of our complicated lives.

— Lynn Godfrey, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Jeon is marvelous in the role, allowing flashes of envy, resentment, and longing to surface beneath Mi-ok’s cheerful, accommodating manner without diminishing her warmth or loyalty.

— Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026

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There wasn’t much original detail left from the era of merchant families; during the rooming-house years, details were stripped and fireplaces boarded over.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026
Through the course of rooming together in dorms at rookie minicamp, doing community service work, taking group trips to Braves games and, of course, navigating practices, the Falcons’ rookie class formed a tight bond.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 22 July 2026

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With a few exceptions, practices for base-camping teams weren’t open to fans, which could have altered their decision to remain in Kansas City.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
Raman says that she is committed to ending homelessness, but the city has gone about it the wrong way and that no-camping zones just push the problem from one neighborhood to another.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

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