as in housing
to provide with living quarters or shelter
the militia is being quartered just outside the city
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Recent Examples of quartering
Meanwhile, break the cauliflower into small florets, halving or quartering the larger ones, and rinse well.
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Carole Kotkin,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Dark Renaissance will teach you a great deal about Marlowe’s brilliance and the Elizabethan era—its theater, the aristocracy, the spy craft, and the finer points of drawing and quartering religious dissidents.
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Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
The closest buck was quartering away to my right, running hard.
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Robert Merchant,
Outdoor Life,
1 Oct. 2025
LeMessurier also realized his engineers had miscalculated how much stress would be offset by the building’s weight during quartering winds.
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Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
Carole Kotkin,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Dark Renaissance will teach you a great deal about Marlowe’s brilliance and the Elizabethan era—its theater, the aristocracy, the spy craft, and the finer points of drawing and quartering religious dissidents.
—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
The closest buck was quartering away to my right, running hard.
—
Robert Merchant,
Outdoor Life,
1 Oct. 2025
LeMessurier also realized his engineers had miscalculated how much stress would be offset by the building’s weight during quartering winds.
—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quartering
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The second and third stories are open to visitors, while the first floor housing the gift shop remains closed.
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About 150 miles from SoFi Stadium, south of the Mexican border, sits the hotel housing Iran’s World Cup team for its games at the Inglewood venue.
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The structures include separate male and female changing cabins, a full dining hall capable of accommodating large dinner parties, a more intimate dining space, a summer kitchen, and several separate saunas.
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The reasons include maintaining routine and consistency, reducing risk of adverse reactions, providing cultural familiarity and accommodating personal preferences.
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Moore’s wartime Shelter Drawings depict families sheltering in the London Underground during air raids, while foreshadowing the abstract, organic forms of his later sculpture.
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If there was any threshold of flooding at which sheltering in place would be abandoned and campers would be instructed how and where to evacuate to higher ground, that plan would have been known only to the camp’s co-executive director, Dick Eastland.
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From a range of lodging options to activities and amenities that will please your whole crew, Ocean Edge delivers both classic Cape Cod vibes and a genuinely great family vacation experience.
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Hyatt House Pleasanton was one of several hotels engulfed in a massive nationwide loan failure for lodging properties.
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On June 16, Kensington Palace confirmed that Prince George will attend the prestigious all-boys boarding school near Windsor this fall, ending years of speculation over where Prince William and Kate Middleton would send their oldest son, who turns 13 on July 22.
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Most travelers boarding a red-eye are focused on getting some sleep on the plane, avoiding jet lag, and figuring out how to freshen up before landing and hitting the ground running in your destination.
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
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According to the study, the first patient was likely exposed to an infected tick when camping in San Mateo and Marin counties in June 2004.
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“Quartering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quartering. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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