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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 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.
—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
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
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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Preparing meals from scratch would require workers to be present longer and kitchens to be equipped for cooking.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
14 May 2026
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The terrorists were equipped with GoPros to film many of their crimes.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2026
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Some shaggy buffalo drowsed in a patch of shade, and a hose fed water into a large puddle where a white goose paddled in tight circles.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Before the Lyon students went to the play elements, they were fed a lunch of hot dogs, chips and frozen custard.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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The place, a rental, is furnished without pretension—cushy sectional, vintage Tabasco poster, board games.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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To top it off, Playmore can be sold furnished with art.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
4 May 2026
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Daniel de Visé Seventeen American passengers on MV Hondius, the cruise ship stricken with the hantavirus outbreak, have disembarked and boarded a flight home, Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said in a news conference on Sunday.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
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The last remaining passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak disembarked Monday and boarded flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine.—
Mike Corder,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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That associate, who is unnamed in the indictment, used a pill presser supplied by Guo to manufacture counterfeit pills for distribution across the country.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2026
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The first outage was caused by a loose wire in the ship's switchboard that became disconnected, causing the Dali's main engine to shut down because the pumps that supplied water to cool the engine turned off, the NTSB said.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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Johnson’s idiosyncratic approach to style has always catered to fashion as a fun form of expression.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
6 May 2026
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It’s typically catered toward those coming from work, or folks that just want to hang out.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Provisioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provisioned. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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