as in to give
to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption
this luxury hotel provides all the comforts of home to well-heeled vacationers
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Recent Examples of provide
Set on a nearly 1-acre hillside lot at the end of a private road, the property provides ample parking for five cars.
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Sandra Barrera, Daily News, 9 May 2026
Evergreen provided a container and chassis to TCW, giving the company 21 days to host the container and four days for the chassis, after which daily detention fees would apply.
—Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
These contracts are a new feature of the collective bargaining agreement designed to provide players with three or fewer years of experience an opportunity to train with teams.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
Going underground Mark Thomson, CERN director general, revealed that CERN is supplying prototype detectors and giant cryostats for DUNE, while in parallel, US labs are providing superconducting magnets for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
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Sandra Barrera, Daily News, 9 May 2026
Evergreen provided a container and chassis to TCW, giving the company 21 days to host the container and four days for the chassis, after which daily detention fees would apply.
—Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
These contracts are a new feature of the collective bargaining agreement designed to provide players with three or fewer years of experience an opportunity to train with teams.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
Going underground Mark Thomson, CERN director general, revealed that CERN is supplying prototype detectors and giant cryostats for DUNE, while in parallel, US labs are providing superconducting magnets for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for provide
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The casting has always managed to feel diverse, but in a guileless, incidental way, giving the appearance of multicultural inclusion without espousing any explicitly progressive viewpoints.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2026
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Inning-ending calls have been overturned, giving hitters another opportunity that, in some cases, has led to game-changing home runs.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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The storefront, which opened in 1852, supplied early miners with dynamite and Studebaker wheelbarrows.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The analyst views Marvell as a major beneficiary of the Amazon-Anthropic agreement, given that the company supplies Trainium application-specific integrated circuits, Ethernet switches, data processing units, and optical digital signal processors to AWS.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
3 May 2026
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Ideal for studio apartments and small spaces, this Murphy bed pulls double duty, furnishing your living room while adding a place for guests to stay in the process.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
5 May 2026
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These are two examples of valuable work product the controller can furnish that fall outside the scope of a traditional departmental audit.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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The truck was en route to deliver bread to the airport when it was grazed by the plane.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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At the building’s peak, five-foot-tall concrete letters spell out a hundred and three words of a speech delivered by Obama in Selma, Alabama, in 2015, on the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when John Lewis and other civil-rights activists were beaten at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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So when Jaden Smith wandered over to sign autographs, Huang handed the reel to him instead.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 May 2026
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The whole point is to remove the decisions, not hand them back to her.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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“Provide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provide. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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