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emplaced

verb

past tense of emplace
as in situated
to arrange something in a certain spot or position the plan is to emplace more guns on the ridge north of the camp

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Recent Examples of emplaced Once emplaced, a ground sensor is also fixed to the set location. — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 The order affects several thousand engineers, scientists and technicians across every NASA center, and strips away long-standing union rights that were emplaced to protect more than half the agency's workforce. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emplaced
  1. situated
  2. placed
  3. put
  4. positioned
  5. located
  6. deposited
Verb
  • As Hernández motored around the bases, JJ Bleday, crashing in from left field, secured the ball and fired to De La Cruz, who was situated in shallow center.
    — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Gulliver’s third voyage takes him to the flying island of Laputa, which rules tyrannically over several territories situated below.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of situated
Verb
  • There was some experimenting with the memoir being all letters, one big letter, or placed interstitially among narrative, but there were always going to be the letters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The defendant attempted to flee the scene, but the victim and his friends gave chase, eventually flagging down a police officer who caught Amin and placed him under arrest, prosecutors said.
    — Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of placed
Verb
  • Have the Bills actually put enough around Josh Allen to win the AFC?
    — Austin Mock, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The ratios offer a little more room for expenses by putting a little less toward savings than the longstanding gold standard, the 50/30/20 budget.
    — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of put
Verb
  • Kansas has a decades-long history of not electing consecutive governors of the same party, suggesting that Masterson is well-positioned to reclaim the governor’s mansion from Democrat Laura Kelly.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The bad news is that the Jets may be better positioned to make a jump and end the longest playoff drought in North American professional sports in 2027.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of positioned
Verb
  • In June, citing concerns related to hurricane season, DHS said all detainees at the Florida state-run center located at an isolated airstrip in the Everglades were transferred to other facilities.
    — Gisela Salomon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Many affected people are located in resource-poor regions where dialysis and transplants are often unaffordable or inaccessible, which can increase the odds of premature death, Paidi noted.
    — Shiv Sudhakar, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of located
Verb
  • For hair, a chelating shampoo can help strip mineral buildup already deposited on the strands.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
  • This is to say nothing of the multitudes of amazing nonfiction deposited on our shelves this week, such as work by Ben Macintyre, Naomi Klein, and more.
    — Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of deposited

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“Emplaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emplaced. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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