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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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This is fed by an ongoing cultural disconnect between emotional and physical pain.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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This fed an anti-vax movement that flummoxed an administration which hadn’t imagined its breadth or power.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 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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The iconic actress and activist has boarded the film and joined a roster of executive producers that includes Rosario Dawson, Rage Against the Machine rocker Tom Morello, Oscar nominee Julie Cohen, Dominique Bravo, Bill Haney, Jonathan Logan, Steve Silberstein and Tony Tabatznik.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Mar. 2026
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Rollins, 62, lives in Cabrini’s two-story row houses, the only buildings that survive, though most of them are boarded up.—
Mary Schmich,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Several hundred Australian fuel stations are out of either gasoline or diesel despite Australian ministers assuring the public the market is well supplied.—
Charlene Gubash,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2026
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Earlier this year, the company supplied Team USA’s Opening and Closing Ceremony outfits for the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
24 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 30 Mar. 2026.
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