stabled

Definition of stablednext
past tense of stable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stabled
Verb
  • Coming off a two-week layoff, Cal Poly (4-5, 1-2) secured two individual wins on Sunday.
    Michael Harley, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The blacksmith clamped this tang into the hilt and secured it with rivets, reported Archaeology News.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Based on the crest fossil’s inner vascular canals and exterior texture, the team theorizes that the cranial accessory was likely housed in keratin and brightly colored.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But the aesthetic alone isn’t why the Grey, the restaurant housed there, routinely ranks on lists of the city’s best places to dine.
    Adam Kuehl, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The backstory Greenwich, for the unfamiliar, is a prosperous city ensconced in Connecticut’s little panhandle.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The villas are ensconced in hilly areas, with beautiful Caribbean views (shuttles are available to transport guests throughout the resort).
    Nneka M. Okona, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast in the wake of the raid, including the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Whitney Westerfield boarded his Southwest flight from Tampa to Nashville on Thursday and went to his seat in Row 8.
    Hannah Sampson, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • During the Cuban Missile Crisis my dad was camped out wearing his parachute under a wing of a C-130.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
  • After returning from a January vacation, the Moores found a group of unhoused people camped on the back patio who did not leave, Moore said.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Under pressure from the European Union, Luxembourg’s secrecy is now being whittled away with the publication of corporate records revealing once-private information on companies domiciled in the country.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Lithium Americas trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE but is incorporated and domiciled in Canada.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As calls continued to come into Providence police from those sheltered on campus, the directing officer on the scene continued his request for assistance from Brown University.
    Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Lusine waved us into an unattended shack, sheltered by tarp walls housing a half-dozen of these works in progress.
    Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Close-quartered and stylish, the movie begins at a Gothic New England mansion where the wealthy patriarch Harlan Thrombey has been found with his throat slit.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Stabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stabled. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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