HOMED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

homed

verb

past tense of home

as in housed

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In 2023, Campbell’s closed its corporate headquarters in Ballantyne, which had once housed about 1,300 corporate employees.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026
An elevator ride to the fourth floor brings you to where most of the museum’s collection is housed.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of housed

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Neither of them lives full-time in New York anymore; Kessler spends much of his time in Barcelona, and Banks is pleasantly ensconced in Berlin with his wife and two young children.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2026
The father-daughter duo has set up shop ensconced in the woods, herding donkeys and so far evading the violence closing in on them from the outside.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026

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That outlay has brought Marc Cucurella, Robert Sanchez, Moises Caicedo and Joao Pedro to Stamford Bridge, while their latest arrival from the south-coast side, centre-forward Danny Welbeck, was secured for a much more modest £5m this summer.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
In the weeks leading up to the first Super Bowl at SoFi, there were misguided rumblings that the game might be moved to Dallas, because the NFL had secured that city as a backup.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of secured

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Hanway Films has boarded Luca Guadagnino‘s Bernardo Bertolucci documentary Joie De Vivre, which debuts at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Following the game, the team boarded a red-eye flight back to Newark Liberty International Airport.

— Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of boarded

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The supervisory board has ultimate power with unions holding half of the 20 seats, and two of the rest held usually by left-leaning Lower Saxony state politicians, where VW is domiciled.

— Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Black people who were enslaved were undoubtedly domiciled here, but the same is not true of temporary visitors.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026

Definition of domiciled

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Authorities said the bullet later lodged in a child's bedroom wall.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
Formula 1’s 2026 Monaco Grand Prix results have been overturned again, as the FIA International Court of Appeal determined the time penalties initially lodged against Pierre Gasly will stand.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of lodged

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In the last decade Germany has sheltered millions of refugees, mainly from Syria and other troubled countries in the Middle East.

— Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
King and another worker sheltered in place in the bookstore’s other building and Spann sheltered down the road, Spann said.

— Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of sheltered

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