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
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  • Dickon Mitchell, the prime minister of Grenada who has called for slavery reparations and an apology from Britain, secured a second term and 14 of 15 seats for the National Democratic Congress.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Under Senate Bill 483, a California law passed in 2022, Rhoades secured a resentencing hearing in Sacramento Superior Court in late 2025.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of secured
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  • Developer Mark Sapperstein, CEO of 28 Walker, plans to build 500 for-sale townhomes and commercial space on about 90 acres in Baltimore Peninsula, including land that once housed The Baltimore Sun’s printing plant and newsroom.
    — Lauren Breunig, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2026
  • If the Department of Homeland Security does not appeal Powers’ decision, Siemionkowicz is allowed to leave Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Campbell County Detention Center in Kentucky, where she has been housed since August 2025.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of housed
Verb
  • By midmorning, Helen, ensconced on a couch in front of the portrait of Andrew, flipped open a laptop and waited.
    — Ron Farina, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
  • To be ensconced within a reading cohort is bliss, and falling off the cart can be demoralizing.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of ensconced
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  • Rise and Shine has boarded the film and is handling world sales.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
  • John Gore Studios has boarded Peter Hoar’s A Waiter in Paris, starring Leo Woodall (Tony) as a young British man attempting to make it as a Parisian waiter, as filming in the French capital.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of boarded
Verb
  • Thousands of people marched through the city during the day, and at the end a few hundred camped out in Rossio, an iconic square in downtown Lisbon.
    — Angela Charlton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
  • George, Louise and her kids camped in Garden of the Gods, at Shawnee National Forest.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of camped
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  • These include whether a stock is a nano float (under 1 million), whether a company is domiciled in certain foreign countries and exercising extreme caution when spotting possible overseas manipulation.
    — David Capablanca, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of domiciled
Verb
  • Under punishing heat, evacuees sheltered in gymnasiums and community centers that often lacked air conditioning.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Amplified by Ted Lasso‘s pandemic release, Mohammed felt sheltered from much of the onslaught of attention.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of sheltered
Verb
  • Rather than being pulled or shredded, the pork is quartered, its skin rendered crisp in the oven throughout the day, and then chopped to order by weight and dressed with a South Carolina-style vinegar sauce.
    — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026
  • One of the animals had been fully skinned while the other had been quartered.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of quartered
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“Stabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stabled. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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