deploys

verb

present tense third-person singular of deploy
as in stations
to place in a particular position The commander deployed additional troops to the region this morning.

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Recent Examples of deploys Where Gravis retrofits machines already on site, Monumental deploys its own fleet from scratch. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 15 July 2026 The aircraft deploys sonobuoys that listen for underwater activity across wide ocean areas. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026 The payer deploys the tool that decides what care gets authorized. — Afnan R. Tariq, STAT, 8 July 2026 As the revs climb toward the 7,000-rpm redline, the rear wing deploys, pressing the car harder into the pavement. — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 However, industry watchers say Amazon’s initial service for Leo will be constrained to only a slice of the Earth’s geography until the company deploys more satellites. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026 This Franco-Swiss film from director Claude Barras deploys tenderly expressive puppets to tell the story of a boy placed in an orphanage after inadvertently killing his alcoholic mother. — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026 Today, SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket regularly deploys Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida – at both NASA's Kennedy Space Center and also the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station – as well as California. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 29 June 2026 And no matter how Maurice deploys his forwards, the Panthers’ top three lines are going to be stacked with talent. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deploys
  1. stations
  2. locates
  3. positions
  4. plants
  5. installs
  6. situates
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  • Dubbed the Velvet Gang, the trio snatches the overpriced, often monochromatic fashion threads designed by Christie Smith (Demi Moore, in a performance of comedic genius), a pretentious piece of work who stations herself in a leaning building (wink, win to San Francisco there).
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Instead, Boston stations him away from the basketball, the keeper of the weak side, free to flick away passes, kill screening actions with switches and, somehow, block shots.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of stations
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  • Māori mythology locates Karikari as the location where the first canoes landed in New Zealand.
    — Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Video shared by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele reportedly showed the moment a Salvadorian rescuer locates a woman, identified as Belkys Barreto, trapped under rubble in Caraballeda, and reassures her that help is near.
    — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
Definition of locates
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  • Industry data now positions the gym as the third place where people go to find community outside work, school and home.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The company also positions CobraJet as one layer within a broader air-defense network.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
Definition of positions
Verb
  • Knowing which plants toxic to dogs are in your space is the first step toward keeping them safe.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • The parent plants from which the cuttings were taken should rapidly heal wounds, and make lots of new grow to reform often more compact plants.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2026
Definition of plants
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  • The next critical Lightcamp component is the compact pull-out kitchen that installs just below the sleeping platform.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 July 2026
  • Plus, the Missouri and Kansas sides of Kansas City are linked anew by a redevelopment of the Rock Island Bridge that installs food outlets and public spaces on a historic former railroad crossing.
    — CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026
Definition of installs
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  • Sittenfeld deftly situates the problems of patriarchy and class politics within an intimate, decades-long love story—and what is more American than that potent mix?
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • Celebrated artists such as Oscar Murillo, Selma Selman, and Hew Locke will be among the participants in next year’s edition of the show, which situates commissions around Münster.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of situates

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