as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter
bunked the guest in the spare room
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Recent Examples of bunked
This is where hundreds of workers bunked while building Henry Flagler’s Key West extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, which connected the Keys to mainland Florida.
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
Some bunked in the triangular houses equipped with bottles of Amaro digestif.
—New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
While newer stations typically provide each firefighter with a separate bedroom, crews back then often bunked in open barracks with little privacy.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
In his photographs of young men of the RAF, Beaton finds a slight homoerotic lens — there’s men sharing cigarettes, bunked together in the trenches and mending clothes on a sewing machine.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
Some bunked in the triangular houses equipped with bottles of Amaro digestif.
—New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
While newer stations typically provide each firefighter with a separate bedroom, crews back then often bunked in open barracks with little privacy.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
In his photographs of young men of the RAF, Beaton finds a slight homoerotic lens — there’s men sharing cigarettes, bunked together in the trenches and mending clothes on a sewing machine.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bunked
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For the new study, Zietlow and her coauthors examined and reclassified fossils housed in more than a dozen institutions — specimens that had been misidentified as the species Tylosaurus proriger.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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In 2027, the show is slated to leave its current offices in New York and be housed alongside the rest of CBS News.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
28 May 2026
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We were whisked around in golf carts, engaged in happy banter at the bar and felt accommodated when last-minute changes or requests arose.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2026
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The porous Iraqi state and its security apparatus have long accommodated these paramilitaries and their political representatives within a carefully exclusionary arrangement—one that persists despite the present intra-Shia tensions stirred by the wider regional war.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
26 May 2026
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This story has been corrected to show the lawsuit has been lodged in an Australian court.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 May 2026
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Samuelson has been left paralyzed from the chest down due to the bullet lodged in his spine.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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“Bunked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bunked. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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