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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.
—
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.
—
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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Whole hogs, widely available and suitable for slow, open-fire cooking that fed large communal gatherings, became central to the area’s emerging cuisine.
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After each cleaning session, the larvae were fed fruit or vegetable peels, since feeding only on flesh can prevent the superworms from molting or even hasten their death.
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Because the Bridge program runs independently of Part D, plan sponsors don’t carry financial risk for eligible glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs furnished under the demonstration project.
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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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On Thursday, windows and doors at the formerly wide-open home, about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, had been boarded up.
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Challenge accepted While visitors boarded the ships to learn about foreign cultures, sailors operating the vessels found their own ways to connect with their international counterparts.
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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 5 Jul. 2026.
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