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as in equipped
to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity
the climbers were sufficiently provisioned to withstand just about any mountaineering emergency
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as in fed
to provide food or meals for
it was the quartermaster's job to properly equip and provision the troops
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Recent Examples of provisioned
The integration work, the tuning, the gap between infrastructure that is provisioned and infrastructure that is productive — these costs rarely surface in procurement but show up reliably in the ROI analysis.
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David Noy,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Liberty in its highest form, for Elizabeth Freeman, was ensuring that her dearest ones would always be safe, well provisioned and well loved.
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New York Times,
22 June 2026
The ship has a small but impressively provisioned boutique, filled with fine jewelry, high-end accessories, and some lovely beach and loungewear.
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Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
The press corps is well provisioned for long negotiations.
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Dalia Abdelwahab,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
Its immaculately neat pantry, which Lorna provisioned on an industrial scale, held enough supplies to get them through months of being cut off by fires or cyclones.
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Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
Fully Dedicated Bare Metal and Cloud-based Server Environments HostColor’s AI-ready Charlotte Dedicated Servers are single-tenant computing environments that can be provisioned on demand.
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Nia Bowers,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Jan. 2026
David Noy,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Liberty in its highest form, for Elizabeth Freeman, was ensuring that her dearest ones would always be safe, well provisioned and well loved.
—
New York Times,
22 June 2026
The ship has a small but impressively provisioned boutique, filled with fine jewelry, high-end accessories, and some lovely beach and loungewear.
—
Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
The press corps is well provisioned for long negotiations.
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Dalia Abdelwahab,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
Its immaculately neat pantry, which Lorna provisioned on an industrial scale, held enough supplies to get them through months of being cut off by fires or cyclones.
—
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
Fully Dedicated Bare Metal and Cloud-based Server Environments HostColor’s AI-ready Charlotte Dedicated Servers are single-tenant computing environments that can be provisioned on demand.
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Nia Bowers,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provisioned
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So in addition to saving this place, everyone on Team Bear now has to try to earn a Michelin star on a night when they may be least equipped to do their best work.
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Following years of economic devastation and underinvestment in public services, the country’s infrastructure – from hospitals to electricity and water – is ill-equipped to deal with a crisis like this.
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Instead of staying in the area of the ranch where the giraffes are fed, Gracie decided to forage on higher terrain and climbed rocks to escape.
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The property features over a mile of frontage along Fall River and controls two of the river’s primary spring-fed tributaries — Spring Creek and Lava Creek, according to Hall and Hall.
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There are also furnished tiny homes a few miles out of town, toward Trappers, Stephenson said, referencing Trail and Hitch Lodging on County Road 8.
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Others shared in the catharsis, too — some resorting to jokes about the hectic postgame interviews Anthony Edwards and Ball furnished, some resorting to utter confusion.
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It was boarded up and moved off-site during construction, then returned as a nostalgic centerpiece at the Mission Pacific.
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It’s also understood that Amazon had seen all the early iterations of the script, before Guadagnino boarded the project.
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But Hilton also supplied fans and coolness in a literal sense.
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Most of the electricity will come from large gas turbines supplied by Chevron's partner, GE Vernova.
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The Giants catered to their LGBTQ fans and pandered their tails off.
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Popular restaurants San Sabino and Don Angie catered the event.
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“Provisioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provisioned. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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