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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Few authors are better equipped to address these questions than the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, who made a name for himself by alchemizing his private life into approximately 3,500 pages of literary voyeurism and stamping it with the name of Hitler’s manifesto.—
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14 Jan. 2026 -
The property is equipped with a heating system.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Nor did their eyes shed tears over the burning library that raiders furnished with the ashes of seven thousand books, which the novelist Mamdouh Azzam had collected over fifty years inside his house in Suwayda.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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The ebb and flow that investors furnish by hatching rentals when demand for them is strong, then switching toward sales when buyers return, helps balance in the marketplace.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
13 Jan. 2026
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The mission was to show the flag, explore commercial opportunities – including routes to supply gold-mining operations – and display a little firepower.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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The launches follow Lumus supplying the waveguide used in Meta Ray-Ban Display AR glasses in 2025, a deal that demonstrated both optical performance and mass manufacturability of geometric waveguides.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Fit (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fit%20%28out%29. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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