as in to equip
to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity
fitted the hikers out with good boots and heavy socks
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These ships are equipped with ramps that can quickly load, transport, and unload tanks and other heavy equipment in wartime.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025 -
Haunting images of the Titanic first made headlines in 1985 when Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s ROV, Argo, equipped with high-resolution cameras and sonar, located the wreck at a staggering depth of 12,500 feet.—
Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
13 Mar. 2025
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Photo : The Charlie Attias Team One of the secondary bedrooms is furnished as a den.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
5 Mar. 2025
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Casting is an expensive multistep process, though, and the same factories can furnish façades for new construction by the more straightforward technique of extrusion, yielding handsome but less ornate panels.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
5 Mar. 2025
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In addition to serving its retail locations, Express Kitchens supplies cabinets for the country’s largest residential property developers such Toll Brothers and Winn Management, as well as Home Depot.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2025
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My own writing since then has sketched out some of the consequences of its fiscal crisis for operations and provided a history of the budget plans and projections that its leadership has supplied to its trustees and, by extension, to the ratings agencies.—
Clifford Ando,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Fit (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fit%20%28out%29. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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