bunked

verb

past tense of bunk
as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter bunked the guest in the spare room

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Recent Examples of bunked Stars James Stewart and Shirley Temple bunked down in their studio dressing rooms. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 Her claim was immediately disputed, debunked, de-debunked, de3-bunked, and ultimately litigated, with experts and expert neural networks testifying and offering evidence on all sides. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026 Cabins come in four different configurations, with either one queen bed or two queens bunked on top of each other—the latter would be great for small families—and have a maximum capacity of four guests. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026 Artists and engineers bunked in, the artist’s turtle Rocky charmed visitors, and Rauschenberg created some key works in his studio there. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026 One of the inn’s most famous residents was author, philosopher and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, who bunked there briefly in the 1830s while attending Harvard. — Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 27 June 2026 This is where hundreds of workers bunked while building Henry Flagler’s Key West extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, which connected the Keys to mainland Florida. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026 Some bunked in the triangular houses equipped with bottles of Amaro digestif. — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026 While newer stations typically provide each firefighter with a separate bedroom, crews back then often bunked in open barracks with little privacy. — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bunked
  1. housed
  2. accommodated
  3. lodged
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  • The group has organized several listening events, at venues from the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania to the Angel Orensanz Center, housed in a 175-year-old former synagogue in New York.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Check into Trevarefabrikken, a photogenic boutique hotel and cultural hub in a mossy-yellow building that once housed a cod liver oil factory.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of housed
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  • The building’s size has accommodated the installation of large-scale architectural holdings, including a three-story section of the concrete façade of Robin Hood Gardens, an influential brutalist public-housing project in East London.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Adorable guest dogs were also accommodated at breakfast, which further added to the home-away-from-home experience.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of accommodated
Verb
  • Alongside Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, Netflix has lodged an appeal with France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, challenging new sub-quotas for investment in documentaries and animation.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The protests being lodged against that decision provide some comfort, and Louise would have been grateful for them.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of lodged

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“Bunked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bunked. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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