HOUSED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

housed

verb

past tense of house

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 Developer Mark Sapperstein, CEO of 28 Walker, plans to build 500 for-sale townhomes and commercial space on about 90 acres in Baltimore Peninsula, including land that once housed The Baltimore Sun’s printing plant and newsroom. — Lauren Breunig, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2026 If the Department of Homeland Security does not appeal Powers’ decision, Siemionkowicz is allowed to leave Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Campbell County Detention Center in Kentucky, where she has been housed since August 2025. — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026 Lemaitre and her colleague, museum curator Caroll Yasky, bring me to see the latter, housed in a dusty, windowless subterranean room. — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026 And that infrastructure, typically housed in data centers, requires increasing amounts of electricity to run. — Lee-Lean Shu, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026 The store clearly distinguishes the three collections with the main collection on the ground floor, segmented by aesthetic, along with Genius, and then Grenoble housed on the second floor for customers seeking mountain, hiking or biking clothes. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026 Jain has been with JioStar before the merger of Reliance Industry’s media assets, including free streamer JioCinema and channels group Viacom18, and Disney Star, which housed the influential Disney+ Hotstar subscription streamer. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026 Both spots, meant to be modern odes to Southern hospitality, will be housed within the JW Marriott Washington, DC, giving its current culinary options an upgrade. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2026 The group has organized several listening events, at venues from the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania to the Angel Orensanz Center, housed in a 175-year-old former synagogue in New York. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

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Kalshi can’t get orders blocking state gambling laws Arkansas filed its lawsuit about a week after Utah Attorney General Derek Brown lodged criminal charges against Kalshi and its founders for violating Utah’s ban on gambling.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky ran the guest house where witnesses summoned to Nuremberg were lodged, which meant that victims of Nazism and perpetrators of it slept in adjacent bedrooms, passed one another on the stairs and took meals at the same table.

— Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of lodged

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Though the signature dumplings, chor muang—chicken and peanut filling encased in delicate butterfly pea flower dough—are the star, don’t overlook the noodle dishes, which are slurpable, expertly sauced, and so soft as to be almost buttery.

— Ali Domrongchai, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
This tableau appears encased by the windshield, as if under a glass bell.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of encased

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Kim has accommodated some of these economic changes; once prohibited, markets are now regulated and taxed by the state.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
An ancient Roman fort discovered in a remote part of Wales could help unravel a centuries-old legend about a Roman emperor — and may have accommodated as many as 1,000 soldiers, the archaeologist behind the discovery told Fox News Digital.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of accommodated

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Under punishing heat, evacuees sheltered in gymnasiums and community centers that often lacked air conditioning.

— Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Amplified by Ted Lasso‘s pandemic release, Mohammed felt sheltered from much of the onslaught of attention.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of sheltered

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And last year, two littermate kittens were hit a few hundred feet apart on a busy street surrounded by Naples subdivisions.

— Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of surrounded

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Rise and Shine has boarded the film and is handling world sales.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
John Gore Studios has boarded Peter Hoar’s A Waiter in Paris, starring Leo Woodall (Tony) as a young British man attempting to make it as a Parisian waiter, as filming in the French capital.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of boarded

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Why are boys diagnosed around three to four times as often as girls, when the genes associated with autism aren’t confined to either group?

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2026
Born with spina bifida and confined to a wheelchair after his father was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, Turek is a four-time Paralympian and two-time gold medalist in wheelchair basketball.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026