stationed

past tense of station
as in appointed
to assign to a place or position stationed guards around the perimeter of the encampment

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Recent Examples of stationed German media reports say Kaufbeuren will host the system’s radar installation, while the interceptor launchers for the battery are expected to be stationed at the nearby Lechfeld air base. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026 Volunteers are often stationed at ‘Ask Me’ desks through the airport. Alexandra Phelps july 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026 Cities and stadiums have increased access to shade, cooling areas and water, and medical personnel are stationed in FIFA Fan Festivals and around stadiums. ABC News, 3 July 2026 An Argentine corner kick went long across the Cape Verde box after being flicked on and Lissandro Martínez was stationed at the far post. Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 3 July 2026 Black bags of fireworks lined its perimeter, stationed for the spectacle to come. Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 For military stationed outside their home states or outside the country, mail-in voting is a necessity. Jamie Rowen, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 After the massive celebrations that had taken place in parts of downtown Los Angeles and Orange County following El Tri's recent wins, police were already stationed by the time the game ended. Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 1 July 2026 Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning. Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
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  • He was appointed for that competition’s 2022 final, having taken charge of the Europa League final a year earlier.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 July 2026
  • Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP, a new catch-all term for UFOs that might appear not just in the air but also in space or underwater.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 11 July 2026
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  • Those severe heat illness cases need to be placed in cooling bags to cool their bodies down within 30 minutes.
    Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2026
  • Comparing trends in recent years, Marti placed the first semester of 2026 on par with the first half of 2023, which had previously marked the strongest start to a year since cinemas reopened following the pandemic.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2026

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“Stationed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stationed. Accessed 12 Jul. 2026.

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