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laid up

verb

past tense of lay up
as in stored
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place an eating disorder that would impel her to lay up candy bars in her closet for all-night food binges

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  1. stored
  2. stashed
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  • And inJanuary space agency officials closed the building that housed Goddard’s library—NASA’s largest—which stored thousands of historical journals and spaceflight documents and was used as a meeting place for Goddard employees.
    — Eric Niiler, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The company says these are live streams to your phone, not recordings, and they are not stored on its servers.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of stored
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  • If the elder Lansky stashed away millions, his grandson noted, the family never saw it.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • These shoe bags do have a more limited storage capacity than some of our other picks in this list, but they can be stashed practically anywhere, like that almost unreachable top closet shelf or under the bed.
    — Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of stashed
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“Laid up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid%20up. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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