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as in equipped
to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity
the climbers were sufficiently provisioned to withstand just about any mountaineering emergency
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as in fed
to provide food or meals for
it was the quartermaster's job to properly equip and provision the troops
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Recent Examples of provisioned
The integration work, the tuning, the gap between infrastructure that is provisioned and infrastructure that is productive — these costs rarely surface in procurement but show up reliably in the ROI analysis.
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David Noy,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Liberty in its highest form, for Elizabeth Freeman, was ensuring that her dearest ones would always be safe, well provisioned and well loved.
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New York Times,
22 June 2026
The ship has a small but impressively provisioned boutique, filled with fine jewelry, high-end accessories, and some lovely beach and loungewear.
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Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
The press corps is well provisioned for long negotiations.
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Dalia Abdelwahab,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
Its immaculately neat pantry, which Lorna provisioned on an industrial scale, held enough supplies to get them through months of being cut off by fires or cyclones.
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Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
Fully Dedicated Bare Metal and Cloud-based Server Environments HostColor’s AI-ready Charlotte Dedicated Servers are single-tenant computing environments that can be provisioned on demand.
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Nia Bowers,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Jan. 2026
David Noy,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Liberty in its highest form, for Elizabeth Freeman, was ensuring that her dearest ones would always be safe, well provisioned and well loved.
—
New York Times,
22 June 2026
The ship has a small but impressively provisioned boutique, filled with fine jewelry, high-end accessories, and some lovely beach and loungewear.
—
Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
The press corps is well provisioned for long negotiations.
—
Dalia Abdelwahab,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
Its immaculately neat pantry, which Lorna provisioned on an industrial scale, held enough supplies to get them through months of being cut off by fires or cyclones.
—
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
Fully Dedicated Bare Metal and Cloud-based Server Environments HostColor’s AI-ready Charlotte Dedicated Servers are single-tenant computing environments that can be provisioned on demand.
—
Nia Bowers,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provisioned
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Tianwen-2 carries both a touch-and-go sampling system and an anchor-and-attach mechanism equipped with drills for collecting surface material.
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It's equipped with two sofas and separate chairs that convert into multiple sleeping arrangements, along with two private in-room sinks, restrooms, and showers.
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Whole hogs, widely available and suitable for slow, open-fire cooking that fed large communal gatherings, became central to the area’s emerging cuisine.
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After each cleaning session, the larvae were fed fruit or vegetable peels, since feeding only on flesh can prevent the superworms from molting or even hasten their death.
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Because the Bridge program runs independently of Part D, plan sponsors don’t carry financial risk for eligible glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs furnished under the demonstration project.
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There are also furnished tiny homes a few miles out of town, toward Trappers, Stephenson said, referencing Trail and Hitch Lodging on County Road 8.
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On Thursday, windows and doors at the formerly wide-open home, about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, had been boarded up.
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Challenge accepted While visitors boarded the ships to learn about foreign cultures, sailors operating the vessels found their own ways to connect with their international counterparts.
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The home of the Chiefs has had louder moments than Friday supplied, and probably far louder moments than Friday.
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For their latest collaboration, released on July 4, 2026, Longwood Gardens supplied Victory with kumquats, a citrus fruit about the size of a grape.
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Chandeliers lit up the inside of the venue, while one of Swift's favorite restaurants, Sartiano’s, catered.
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Meta hosted a beautiful evening party right on the beach, catered by the wildly viral Cedric Grolet.
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“Provisioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provisioned. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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