stabled

past tense of stable

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Jolly replaced him and, within two months, secured Moreno’s approval to hire the architect of a World Series championship team to figure out what was not right in the organization, and to fix it.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • At the time, Taylor was in the process of re-recording her first six albums after not being given the chance to buy back her masters, but has since secured complete ownership of her discography.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • It was cast by the same foundry in London, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, that produced the original bell in 1752, now housed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
    Daily News, Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • During its first decades the seventeen-story building housed The Miami News.
    Ada Ferrer, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • The Goldblums, along with their two sons, Charlie Ocean and River Joe, live happily in the hills above West Hollywood, ensconced in the charming 1930s Spanish Revival house that the actor has occupied for more than four decades.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2026
  • For instance, humans are mostly ensconced in buildings, but few consider air as a major element in the process of designing interiors.
    Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
Verb
  • On Thursday, windows and doors at the formerly wide-open home, about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, had been boarded up.
    Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • 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.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Like many of the people camped outside their families’ homes in Venezuela, Mendoza refuses to believe they are gone until the last moment possible.
    Isa Soares, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • The floods began in the early morning hours of July 4, while many people were still asleep in their homes and visitors were camped along the Guadalupe River in anticipation of the Fourth of July.
    Samantha Cookinham, NBC news, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • Last December, Temu owner PDD Holdings—a multinational commerce group domiciled in the Cayman Islands and registered in Ireland that’s better known as Pinduoduo—had two of its global facilities raided by European Union regulators over worries over possible Chinese state subsidies.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
  • Authorities say that many such assets were domiciled in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • About 120 of those who could walk were being sheltered in a gym, while the rest were housed in a psychiatric hospital, local authorities said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • Apartment residents were temporarily sheltered at Hunt Middle School.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • The biggest games, the greatest stages, have been quartered off by a velvet rope.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • This side of deeply roasted, tender sweet potatoes comes quartered and seasoned with GK’s take on togarashi.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Stabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stabled. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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