stabled

verb

past tense of stable
as in secured

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stabled
  1. secured
  2. housed
  3. ensconced
  4. boarded
  5. camped
  6. domiciled
  7. sheltered
  8. quartered
Verb
  • Jolly replaced him and, within two months, secured Moreno’s approval to hire the architect of a World Series championship team to figure out what was not right in the organization, and to fix it.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • At the time, Taylor was in the process of re-recording her first six albums after not being given the chance to buy back her masters, but has since secured complete ownership of her discography.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
Definition of secured
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  • The mission museum and gift shop are housed in the original Convent Wing, once the residential quarters of Franciscan priests and friars.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • Rodriguez said in a May phone interview with the Herald that detainees had been complaining when a guard approached him and told him to walk out of the cage where he and other men were housed.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
Definition of housed
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  • Being offensive was its social role, harmless as long as the art was safely ensconced in a museum.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • The tall ficus hedges that ensconced the prior edition are long gone.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
Definition of ensconced
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Schettino boarded a lifeboat and abandoned the cruise ship.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 14 July 2026
  • Later that evening, Lidia and a group of other detainees were boarded onto a bus and driven to an airport tarmac.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of boarded
Verb
  • Watery diarrhea, cramping and bloating can last for weeks, and those stricken with the parasite have reported being camped at their toilet for days.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • Despite the heat, fans camped out at Valley Forge National Historical Park.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 July 2026
Definition of camped
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  • Black people who were enslaved were undoubtedly domiciled here, but the same is not true of temporary visitors.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • Last December, Temu owner PDD Holdings—a multinational commerce group domiciled in the Cayman Islands and registered in Ireland that’s better known as Pinduoduo—had two of its global facilities raided by European Union regulators over worries over possible Chinese state subsidies.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
Definition of domiciled
Verb
  • Multiple calls to sheriff’s dispatchers brought deputies to the woman, who sheltered in the apartment of a Good Samaritan, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026
  • About 120 of those who could walk were being sheltered in a gym, while the rest were housed in a psychiatric hospital, local authorities said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of sheltered
Verb
  • The biggest games, the greatest stages, have been quartered off by a velvet rope.
    — Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • This side of deeply roasted, tender sweet potatoes comes quartered and seasoned with GK’s take on togarashi.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of quartered
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