parked

Definition of parkednext
past tense of park

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The church is located at 13925 El Camino Real, San Diego, 92130.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Donaldsonville was located in the center of the state’s thriving sugar industry, which was rife with planters growing wealthy on the labor of the enslaved.
    Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • States situated on the West Coast currently have higher per-gallon costs than those in the South and Midwest, with the exception of Florida, which had higher gas prices than most other Southern states.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And situated about a half-dozen degrees to its upper left is the steady, dazzling light of Venus.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Usos had been positioned as one of Raw's most prominent tag teams heading into WrestleMania season, making the loss a notable shift in the landscape of the tag team division.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Its battery can be positioned to avoid clashing with backpack frames, allowing users to move naturally while carrying larger loads.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Soon, more Black firefighters were stationed beyond 19.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Agents last year stationed themselves in a church’s parking lot.
    Ryan Oehrli April 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • After reaching orbit, Orion deployed its four solar arrays–angled away from the spacecraft in a way that evokes an X-Wing from Star Wars–while flight controllers worked through a brief communications glitch.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That included both the SLS rocket's core stage and upper stage separately at different times from Orion, which also deployed its solar arrays to draw power from the sun while reaching a high-Earth orbit about 46,000 miles high.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Their plumed blooms in pink, red, white, and purple, and their fern-like leaves add visual contrast when planted with hydrangeas.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Each section with a sprout can be cut into a seed potato and planted.
    Heather Bien, The Spruce, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The order affects several thousand engineers, scientists and technicians across every NASA center, and strips away long-standing union rights that were emplaced to protect more than half the agency's workforce.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The venue, perched atop Edge — the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere at 1,131 feet — transforms the observation deck into a high-energy nightlife destination each summer.
    Abigail Park, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2026
  • As soon as Wednesday, a four-person crew could launch on a mission to fly around the moon in an Orion capsule that's currently perched at the top of a 322-foot, orange-and-white rocket waiting at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Parked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parked. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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