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to leave a place often for another
I'm running late, so I've got to book
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Recent Examples of booked
McKee was booked at the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office in Illinois just before noon on Saturday, records show, and is charged with two counts of murder in Ohio.
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Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 11 Jan. 2026
The three suspects were booked into juvenile hall for assault with a firearm, participating in a criminal street gang, gang enhancement and unlawful assembly for the purpose of committing a violent act.
—Brandon Downs, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
He was booked into the Gwinnett County Jail with no bond.
—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
Robert Delano Bone, 69, of the 400 block of Shorewood Court and a resident of the group home, was booked into the Porter County Jail Friday afternoon, according to online jail records.
—Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
He was booked into the Clay County jail before dawn Saturday, jail records show.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Sony Pictures Classics and Walden Media’s WWII drama Nuremberg, booked at 1,700 theaters this weekend, started off with $210K last night in previews.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
The trip can be booked on Outdoor's website.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
Cowens was booked early Friday into the Sacramento County Main Jail, where she was being held without bail.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for booked
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That gives the car a one-to-one power-to-weight ratio, a figure usually reserved for modern hypercars.—
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Prosecutors will have the chance to question Hale again, and defense attorneys reserved the right to ask for the testimony to ultimately be excluded.—
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They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.—
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Led by quarterback Tony Pike, the Bearcats moved quickly down the field, setting up a first down at Pitt’s 29-yard line with 33 seconds left.—
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Reuters reported Thursday that Comcast had hired bankers from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to sort through a potential bid for some of WBD’s assets.—
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Investigations found the voicemails of public figures were hacked by journalists and private investigators hired by publications who worked on the assumption that few people changed the default voicemail access code their handset came with.—
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Police said a 30-year-old Meridian man exited the vehicle and walked away from the location, while the driver stayed and cooperated with officers.—
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After speeding past traffic at 100 mph, the driver exited the freeway in Woodland Hills and continued to recklessly drive onto the wrong side of the road and swerve between lanes in nearby Canoga Park.—
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Once the clock struck zero and quarterback Jordan Love’s final prayer fell unanswered in the end zone, Policy swiftly departed without much expression.—
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Now, New England is once again atop the AFC East, their first division victory since Tom Brady departed Boston.—
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After that day, when I was given the book which promised to answer all of my bloody questions—my long-suffering American Girl doll went into the closet.—
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On the other sideline, Lawrence went 13-for-23 for 158 yards with one touchdown and one interception.—
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By 1996, Joe broke through in commercial work and got into television.—
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Multiple King of Fire, which got its start as a food truck and expanded to a permanent space in uptown Charlotte, plans to open a 3,484-square-foot space at CrossRidge Center across the border in Indian Land, South Carolina.—
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The Hamilton 10-year anniversary bailed, as did Issa Rae, Rhiannon Giddens, and the opera Fellow Travelers.—
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The other three individuals, whom police only identified as two men and a woman, have been bailed.—
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“Booked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booked. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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