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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  • 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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  • The Goldblums, along with their two sons, Charlie Ocean and River Joe, live happily in the hills above West Hollywood, ensconced in the charming 1930s Spanish Revival house that the actor has occupied for more than four decades.
    — Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2026
  • For instance, humans are mostly ensconced in buildings, but few consider air as a major element in the process of designing interiors.
    — Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
Definition of ensconced
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  • With assistance from California State Parks and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit, Roseville Police boarded a patrol boat and found the suspect operating the vessel on the lake.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
  • The sources said Machado had already boarded the aircraft and was preparing for departure when the process was unexpectedly halted.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
Definition of boarded
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  • Dozens of camera crews and reporters were camped out in front of the side entrance to the New York Knicks home court.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
  • On July 2, the royal mom of three visited the line where tennis fans camped out overnight in hopes of scoring tickets before meeting with line volunteers, spending time with the Shine Camera Club and taking in some of the sporting action.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
Definition of camped
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  • 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
  • Authorities say that many such assets were domiciled in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
Definition of domiciled
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  • 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
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  • 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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