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as in fed
to provide food or meals for
housed and boarded many foster children over the years
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as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter
boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found
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Recent Examples of boarded
At the airport in Tapachula, the deportees boarded white passenger buses that took them to the parking lot of the city's Olympic soccer stadium.
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Daniel Gonzalez, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
People from the Kansas City area who boarded the ship are highlighted on posters hanging on the walls next to artifacts like fragments of a first-class curtain, a door handle and a White Star Line envelope.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Nov. 2025
Sean Garber had just boarded a plane in Jacksonville, Florida, when the call came in from his CFO at Grade A Auto Parts and Recycling in Louisville.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Nov. 2025
Tickets are collected, train cars are boarded, and the fun begins.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
After a few phone calls, Aster and Lars Knudsen boarded the remake as producers under their Square Peg banner.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
As the migrants boarded, a man hoisted one of the passengers in the air, a fussing 8-month-old baby whose face was flushed red from the heat.
—Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Rocket Science has boarded international sales and will introduce the film to buyers ahead of next week’s American Film Market; CAA Media Finance is representing domestic rights.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Swain agreed and boarded the red-eye to Heathrow toting a bulging roller suitcase packed full of financials.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
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Chris Kreider’s diagonal pass connected with Jackson LaCombe, who immediately fed the puck to an unmarked Poehling for an easy conversion.—
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By happenstance, the high risk report was released just as a scandal was erupting in Minnesota over widespread fraud in a program meant to keep children fed during the pandemic.—
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The elementary school arts magnet program will be housed at University Park Creative Arts.—
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That's because the Globes do look a little different this year, thanks to construction on the Beverly Hilton, the iconic hotel that's housed the awards show for decades.—
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All new bookings will require guests to be aged 18 years or older, in a departure from Oceania’s previous policy, which accommodated passengers as young as six months on certain sailings.—
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Adding an additional four teams could be accommodated as soon as the 2026 season.—
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Toward the end of last month, more than a dozen separate proposals from Chinese satellite operators were lodged with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the global body responsible for coordinating radio spectrum and orbital slots.—
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His friends also told him that Farabi Eye Hospital in Tehran experienced a particular surge in patients with pellets lodged in their eyes, with roughly 200 to 300 patients.—
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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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