parked

Definition of parkednext
past tense of park

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for parked
Verb
  • The labyrinth of pathways connects guests to both the various outdoor spaces and grand buildings that house the 156 rooms and villas, including the main building where the majority of the hotel’s dining and drinking options are located.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Inside, the deputy located two revolvers and ammunition.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Wolf Lake is situated on the northwest side of Hammond, butting up beside the Indiana-Illinois state line.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The Surf Hotel is situated right along the river in Buena Vista's South Main neighborhood.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Here, the brand positioned itself not as a narrator but as a host — facilitating collective experience rather than staging spectacle.
    Yiling Pan, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Wiseman positioned his cameras in the midst of institutions, as unobtrusively as possible, to catalogue the routines of daily life.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • While Proba-2 had an unobstructed view from space, on Earth the full annular phase was only visible from remote locations in Antarctica, limiting the spectacle to just a small number of researchers stationed at remote scientific outposts … and a lot of penguins.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Five workers stationed near the powerhouse were rescued by helicopter from both the New Colgate facility and a nearby Pacific Gas & Electric site after the access road was severed.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The lone guide to survive from the company that organized the trip used the iPhone SOS feature to text with the Nevada County Sheriff's Office, which deployed skilled rescue crews to their location.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The regime accused protesters of being Israeli spies and deployed the brutal local paramilitary Basij force to suppress demonstrations which were sparked by poor economic conditions but transformed into calls for regime change.
    Farida Elsebai, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • One of the largest groups, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, has planted about 10,000 of its 15,000-tree quota, said Andrew Ferris, senior coordinator for their native plants program.
    Melina Walling, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure succulents are planted in well-draining soil to keep them from rotting.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The order affects several thousand engineers, scientists and technicians across every NASA center, and strips away long-standing union rights that were emplaced to protect more than half the agency's workforce.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Maude Apatow perched at a table with a group of friends, Jordan Firstman rolled in through the back entrance, and Ella Emhoff was early on the scene.
    Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The subterranean lounge is built on the garden level of a brick townhouse perched atop the hills of Mount Adams, Cincinnati's most beautiful neighborhood.
    USA TODAY NETWORK, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
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“Parked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parked. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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