as in to sleep out
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Recent Examples of tent
Marc Terziev,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Bear in mind, a tent does not protect you from lightning.
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Kansas City Star Weather Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2026
David Ubben,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Any residents living in the apartment or home will need to vacate for 24 hours while the extermination team tents the space to release a fumigant gas.
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Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
16 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Stan and Bud departed and Ed and I began to resign ourselves to putting up the tent again.
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Marc Terziev,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Bear in mind, a tent does not protect you from lightning.
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Kansas City Star Weather Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2026
Verb
There are three tenting levels of varying intensity: black, blue and white.
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David Ubben,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Any residents living in the apartment or home will need to vacate for 24 hours while the extermination team tents the space to release a fumigant gas.
—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tent
Noun
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The fire is believed to have started on the solar array on the roof of the 500,000 square-foot building, which housed 85 million pounds of frozen food.
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Instead of a hallway of bedrooms under a single roof, the sleeping spaces are dispersed across the property, each with direct access to the gardens — a design more commonly found in tropical destinations than in a tony coastal enclave about 35 miles north of San Francisco.
Verb
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All those people who sleep out there.
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In 2009, William secretly took the headline-making step of sleeping out on the streets of London one night.
Noun
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The city says this summer, construction will begin on the rehabilitation of the Blue Line station canopy.
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Are canopies and awnings the same thing?
Verb
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It’s believed that everyone else died while encamped for the winter or while attempting to walk back to civilization.
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Part of Tennyson lived, was encamped, at the outer reaches of the psyche.
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“Tent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tent. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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