stabled

verb

past tense of stable
as in secured

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  1. secured
  2. housed
  3. ensconced
  4. boarded
  5. camped
  6. domiciled
  7. sheltered
  8. quartered
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  • Thiel also secured New Zealand citizenship in 2011, receiving a special exemption from the usual residency requirements.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The settlement comes less than a month after Uber and Lyft drivers in California secured collective bargaining power for the first time with the certification of the California Gig Workers Union.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of secured
Verb
  • Crews went floor to floor, hitting individual cubicles, offices and even coordinating with a restaurant also housed in the building.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Palisades originally housed an 805-megawatt reactor, which is now in the final technical stages of restarting.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of housed
Verb
  • With some 2,000 tomes ensconced in the Library, passengers can spend hours in a cozy corner.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • At Pace, some are ensconced in the walls or cantilevered à la Donald Judd, while others stand atop steel bases.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of ensconced
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  • Former Warner Bros Motion Picture Boss Toby Emmerich had boarded FilmNation Entertainment‘s production label Infrared as a consultant.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Later Monday the graffiti was removed and the door was boarded up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of boarded
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  • Over the following weeks, Morsi’s supporters camped and protested in eastern Cairo near the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.
    — Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Over a thousand people are now camped in Madrid’s most central square in a scale not seen since 2011, in the aftermath of the financial collapse.
    — Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of camped
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  • These include whether a stock is a nano float (under 1 million), whether a company is domiciled in certain foreign countries and exercising extreme caution when spotting possible overseas manipulation.
    — David Capablanca, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Black people who were enslaved were undoubtedly domiciled here, but the same is not true of temporary visitors.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of domiciled
Verb
  • Thousands sheltered on Monday in evacuation centres in the Thai capital, parts of it still flooded after havoc brought by intense weekend rain, while swelling reservoirs in an eastern province triggered orders for more to leave their homes.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The new 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods will hammer many small- and medium-sized businesses, including family firms, that up to this point have been largely sheltered from the trade war.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of sheltered
Verb
  • One of the animals had been fully skinned while the other had been quartered.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The biggest games, the greatest stages, have been quartered off by a velvet rope.
    — Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 13 June 2026
Definition of quartered
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“Stabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stabled. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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