as in to sleep out
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Recent Examples of tent
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 July 2026
Towards the back of the tent is the crash cart with advanced cardiac life support.
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Stephanie Stahl,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Storey Wertheimer,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
Any residents living in the apartment or home will need to vacate for 24 hours while the extermination team tents the space to release a fumigant gas.
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Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
16 Feb. 2026
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Noun
The ribs Riles has planned, prepped, and thought about for months have been judged blind and on-site, at a table specially set for the judges underneath his massive tent.
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Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 July 2026
Towards the back of the tent is the crash cart with advanced cardiac life support.
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Stephanie Stahl,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Verb
Over the next few decades, as Coach K won five national titles and turned Duke into, arguably, the sport’s pre-eminent program, tenting grew increasingly popular.
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Storey Wertheimer,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
Any residents living in the apartment or home will need to vacate for 24 hours while the extermination team tents the space to release a fumigant gas.
—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tent
Noun
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The fire is believed to have started on the solar array on the roof of the 500,000 square-foot building, which housed 85 million pounds of frozen food.
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Instead of a hallway of bedrooms under a single roof, the sleeping spaces are dispersed across the property, each with direct access to the gardens — a design more commonly found in tropical destinations than in a tony coastal enclave about 35 miles north of San Francisco.
Verb
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All those people who sleep out there.
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In 2009, William secretly took the headline-making step of sleeping out on the streets of London one night.
Noun
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Under the canopy of one of her farm’s high tunnels at the start of this year's planting season, Dawn Spears carefully organized her tomato crop, separating the tiny plants before moving them to a field outside.
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Where natural cover is thin, a dog shade canopy or an insulated outdoor dog house creates a dedicated cool retreat.
Verb
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It’s believed that everyone else died while encamped for the winter or while attempting to walk back to civilization.
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Part of Tennyson lived, was encamped, at the outer reaches of the psyche.
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“Tent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tent. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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