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 Officials posted abroad wishing to defect must dexterously evade state security officials stationed alongside them and come to peace with the fact that loved ones back home will surely be punished. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026 Derek vs Derek started life as a doc about rewilding, but became something quite different when EP Adam Wishart realized one of its protagonists had a rival stationed on the farm opposite him. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026 Reinhart, stationed to the left of the net, took a pass from Carter Verhaeghe and had all kinds of time as no Jets approached him. — Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026 This year is no exception, with extra security guards set to be stationed at 10 locations around Shibuya during the Halloween weekend. — Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026 The Nazis stationed their troops in Napoleon III’s barracks during their occupation of Paris in the Second World War. — Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026 Some will be from members of the military stationed overseas. — Philip Wang, Time, 28 Oct. 2026 Called the Thermo Scientific Spectra Ultra, the advanced scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is stationed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026 Narrated by Tom Berenger, the documentary is told through the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment who were stationed in Sangin District in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stationed
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  • Then last month, Kwan appointed former Rwandan Minister of State for Infrastructure Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye as RFO’s principal of emerging markets and business development to drive investment flows between Asia and Africa.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • He was appointed by Commissioner Richard Lara to serve on the city’s charter review committee and recently resigned from the city’s planning and zoning board to run for office.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • The system uses implanted 3-mm magnets to measure muscle length and movement speed through sensors placed on the skin.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Carefully placed to take full advantage of ocean views but not block them, the buildings seem not so much on the land as embedded within it.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Stationed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stationed. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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