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as in lodged
to provide with living quarters or shelter
some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished
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as in encased
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
the famous document is housed in a special display case
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Recent Examples of housed
The image appears to show the bottom of Orion's service module where its main engine and auxiliary thrusters are housed.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
And, most people who are living on the street are actively trying to become housed.
—Benjamin F. Henwood, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
The building—which housed MacArthur's many medical trainees, physicians, and personnel—offered to install ones that adjusted to pupil dilation.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
This list highlights just 14 of the paintings found in collections housed there.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Fusion Academy, which is housed at Palladio, is accredited by Cognia and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, according to an academy handout.
—Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
The 1926 auditorium, designed by Chicago architects Benjamin Marshall and Charles Fox (whose resumes also include the Drake and Blackstone Hotels), once housed surgical conferences.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Only a single medallion from the mosaic remained and is now housed in Reims’ Musée Saint-Rémi.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
King sits in Clay County custody, currently housed in Platte County Jail, in lieu of payment of a $2 million cash bond.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
And, most people who are living on the street are actively trying to become housed.
—Benjamin F. Henwood, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
The building—which housed MacArthur's many medical trainees, physicians, and personnel—offered to install ones that adjusted to pupil dilation.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
This list highlights just 14 of the paintings found in collections housed there.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Fusion Academy, which is housed at Palladio, is accredited by Cognia and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, according to an academy handout.
—Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
The 1926 auditorium, designed by Chicago architects Benjamin Marshall and Charles Fox (whose resumes also include the Drake and Blackstone Hotels), once housed surgical conferences.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Only a single medallion from the mosaic remained and is now housed in Reims’ Musée Saint-Rémi.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
King sits in Clay County custody, currently housed in Platte County Jail, in lieu of payment of a $2 million cash bond.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housed
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His official complaint has been lodged with the judges of the French War Crimes Unit and concerns Israel’s bombing of a residential building in Beirut on November 26 2024, which killed seven civilians.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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Aerial footage of the aftermath showed wreckage scattered across the roof, including the plane’s right wing still lodged in the roof, while the fuselage sat crumpled in the backyard.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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His entire right foot encased in ice, Foster bunny-hopped onto the dais, hobbling from ice foot to sneakered foot, to his seat.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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The primary suite is the crown jewel of the space—encased in a wall of glass that welcomes natural light at every angle from the living room just below.—
Kristin Braswell,
Architectural Digest,
23 Mar. 2026
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Tehran’s response to the US and Israeli war has shattered any remaining belief in the Gulf that the Iranian regime could be accommodated.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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The cabin layout that produced the fastest evacuation time accommodated a total of 152 passengers with two rows of first-class seats at the front, and 30 elderly passengers evenly distributed throughout the cabin.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The footage showed tubes with ruptures and other damaged structures that used to be inside the pressure vessel, which originally was enclosed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
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As a precaution, the highway leading out of Izium to the next town has also been enclosed in a corridor of netting.—
Eleanor Beardsley,
NPR,
17 Mar. 2026
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In a cave that sheltered freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad, their uncle shares a story of a creature that stirs at night.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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Becca’s life is pretty sheltered, and having a boyfriend is really exciting for her.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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My friend Thai, whose parents were part of the Weather Underground leadership, remembers his father, Jeff Jones, coming home one day to find their family’s Hoboken apartment surrounded by cops—a fire inspector had spotted his tiny crop of marijuana plants on the fire escape.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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More than a dozen police and emergency vehicles surrounded a U-Haul truck cordoned off with caution tape outside the stadium.—
Suryatapa Chakraborty,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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This bonkers show from the darkly comedic mind of artist Jhonen Vasquez must have boarded the fastest spaceship from the planet Conventia, arriving far too early on our television sets.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Officials at the embassy in Manama continued running convoys and ensuring everyone had visas required to cross the border until Thursday of that week, when the final eight people and 19 pets left to be evacuated were boarded onto vehicles and shuttled out of Bahrain.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Because this month’s layoffs are not confined to tech and spread across airlines, logistics, food production, healthcare, and more, the overall job market may be entering a recalibration period due to cost pressures and the rise of artificial intelligence.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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This cosmic expansion doesn’t actually consist of anything exceeding the speed of light, as the limits of special relativity (which limit speeds to a limit of the speed of light) are confined to two objects passing each other at the same location in space.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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