chartered

past tense of charter

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Recent Examples of chartered Dickinson and his wife, Mary, were the namesakes for the first college — based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania — chartered after the founding of the United States. ABC News, 2 July 2026 Building on existing kidney and heart programs, the center was formally chartered in 1989. Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Flight Monitor, a project by Human Rights First, confirmed to the Herald that the flight was operated by ICE Air and chartered by Global X. Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026 The late 1800s saw the rise of land‑grant universities, chartered to make education accessible to the working class while advancing research and public service. Adam Stone, USA Today, 25 June 2026 The Boeing 727 was sold to a Malaysian company that chartered it for VIP transport for a few years, before the aircraft was scrapped. Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 24 June 2026 Nike has chartered a path to improving its share price, but the athletic retailer faces several headwinds that could foil its recovery plan, according to Evercore ISI. Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 23 June 2026 In 1827, merchants and civic leaders here chartered the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, launching what became America’s first common-carrier railroad. Wes Moore, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2026 Their only hope for a better life is to get on the Winnipeg, a cargo ship chartered by Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and artist Delia del Carril to offer survivors a new life in Valparaíso, Chile. Roberto Prieto, Variety, 19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chartered
Verb
  • Fifth Avenue duplex The actor, along with her then-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, rented a $37,000-a-month five-bedroom duplex in Midtown Manhattan’s Olympic Tower in the mid-2000s.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2026
  • Kansas City rented more than 200 buses for its transportation system and counted more than 215,000 ConnectKC riders, including 145,000 who used the service to the stadium.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Aramco’s East-West pipeline and its investments in storage facilities around the world enabled it to take advantage of higher crude prices.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
  • Three-dimensional adjustments of the lattice dimensions enabled precise tuning of localized thermal conductivity.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Also Monday, Michigan hired Brown coach Mike Martin as an assistant to run the Wolverines offense.
    Tobias Bass, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • When Gaspard was hired as political director on Obama’s presidential campaign, Michelle Obama was in need of some staff of her own.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • This is the part the Pentagon has now authorized for $17 billion in launch procurement expenses.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026
  • According to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident publicly, the ship was hijacked by seven armed Somali pirates.
    Omar Faruk, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • For obesity, a condition that can lead to worse comorbidities like diabetes and heart disease, patients must feel empowered to use every tool at their disposal to help prevent and reverse this disease.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 July 2026
  • From the get-go, Jean Paul Gaultier empowered women with strong tailoring, visible corsetry, sailor stripes and other signposts of Parisian chic.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Three questions that qualified for the Massachusetts ballot will never reach voters after the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) struck them down.
    Robert Cordy, Boston Herald, 19 July 2026
  • Tiffany Stratton qualified by defeating Jacy Jayne, while Jade Cargill advanced via disqualification against Nia Jax after Charlotte Flair's interference.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • Contrary to Trump’s comments on Thursday night, national networks are not licensed by the government, but local stations are.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • For instance, Ohio requires principals of schools participating in its scholarship program to be licensed.
    Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Jimmy, an 18-month-old German shepherd-Belgian Malinois mix from Europe, is certified in apprehension and the detection of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.
    Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
  • Those venues are certified by The Broadway League, the trade association for the Broadway industry, and each one has a minimum of 500 seats.
    Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026

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