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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
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.
—Nia Bowers, Charlotte Observer, 2 Jan. 2026
Enabling Zero Trust authentication, access and authorization for agents requires rethinking how identity is modeled, provisioned and governed across the full life cycle.
—Eric Olden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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.
—Nia Bowers, Charlotte Observer, 2 Jan. 2026
Enabling Zero Trust authentication, access and authorization for agents requires rethinking how identity is modeled, provisioned and governed across the full life cycle.
—Eric Olden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provisioned
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The Swift Observatory is equipped with a Burst Alert Telescope that surveys a huge amount of the sky at once, looking for flashes of light and pinpointing their locations.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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The property is equipped with a heating system and a cooling system.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Whether or not Ye used AI to make Bully, the album nonetheless feels like decades of his music fed into a computer program.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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But fortunately, the larvae happily fed on the tiny crustaceans called copepods that the aquarists gave them.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2026
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There’s also a central courtyard furnished with a fireplace that’s best enjoyed with a glass of merlot of Cabernac Franc in hand from Sunstone Winery.—
Kristin Braswell,
Architectural Digest,
23 Mar. 2026
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While in 1570 the island furnished 70 percent of the sugar in Antwerp—Europe’s most important market—the figure had crashed to 2 percent in the 1590s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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This bonkers show from the darkly comedic mind of artist Jhonen Vasquez must have boarded the fastest spaceship from the planet Conventia, arriving far too early on our television sets.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Officials at the embassy in Manama continued running convoys and ensuring everyone had visas required to cross the border until Thursday of that week, when the final eight people and 19 pets left to be evacuated were boarded onto vehicles and shuttled out of Bahrain.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
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All three of Liverpool’s draws owed much to Olsson, who scored and assisted both goals against West Ham United and supplied the lone goals against Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Detectives found evidence suggesting that Dushay had allegedly supplied narcotics to the man prior to the overdose and tampered with evidence at the scene, Wellington said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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Boxed lunches were catered from grab-and-go café Mendocino Farms.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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After the carpet, guests entered one of two open-air courtyards for a preshow reception catered by Wolfgang Puck and from which a preshow telecast was being hosted by Ariana DeBose and Lil Rel Howery.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Provisioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provisioned. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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