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as in encamped
to live in a camp or the outdoors
the army bivouacked for the night by the lake
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2
as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter
survivors of the tornado were bivouacked in the church basement
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The Children’s Museum and its preschool were housed in a building in the town’s center alongside its lifesize statue of Conny the sperm whale.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2026 -
Private school students — who are disproportionately affluent, stably housed and high-performing — are not included in state averages.—
Jill Stegman,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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That request was made 10 years ago and was cheerfully accommodated.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The airport is now planning to use the 13-acre swath of land that once accommodated rentals cars for a massive parking expansion to add another 2,000 spaces.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
10 Feb. 2026
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis my dad was camped out wearing his parachute under a wing of a C-130.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
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After returning from a January vacation, the Moores found a group of unhoused people camped on the back patio who did not leave, Moore said.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Feb. 2026
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One put cash onto the ground, authorities said, so when the victim bent over to pick it up a thief switched the bank card lodged into the ATM with a fraudulent one.—
Ryanne Mena,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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The civil case notwithstanding, the Justice Department lodged new criminal charges against Cherfilus-McCormick and Edwin Cherfilus, who is named as a defendant in the main theft conspiracy count and related money-laundering counts.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
3 Feb. 2026
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As calls continued to come into Providence police from those sheltered on campus, the directing officer on the scene continued his request for assistance from Brown University.—
Mark Reynolds,
The Providence Journal,
9 Feb. 2026
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Lusine waved us into an unattended shack, sheltered by tarp walls housing a half-dozen of these works in progress.—
Marlise Kast-Myers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Bivouacked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bivouacked. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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