HOUSED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

housed

verb

past tense of house

as in lodged

to provide with living quarters or shelter some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished

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as in encased

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers the famous document is housed in a special display case

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Recent Examples of housed 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 The mall closed after only five years and most of the former factory complex that housed it was torn down, but Goose Island remained for nearly another 30. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The space in Indianapolis, housed in a former dairy barn, aims to upend expectations of what an art museum can be. — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Disney filed demolition permits last year for the building that previously housed La Brea Bakery in Downtown Disney. — Ella Chakarian, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 There were three swimming pools and a five-car garage that housed at least two Rolls-Royces. — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026 On Thursday, the Kansas City Royals and architecture firm Populous revealed new renderings for the stadium, which will be housed in Crown Center. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026 The service station, which was in a small town on the Adriatic Coast, also housed a restaurant. — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

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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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The mRNA coding for these proteins, or antigens, are encased in a lipid particle in a similar way to Moderna’s COVID vaccine, which used mRNA from the COVID virus’ spike protein.

— Alice Park, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
The arthropod group includes animals that are without a backbone or any bones at all, strictly speaking, their bodies being encased in a ringed, exterior tegument and having legs and, sometimes, wings.

— Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of encased

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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

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Plage des Dames is a particularly beautiful beach, its historic white wooden beach huts sheltered by oaks.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026
Many migrants who remained in Ceuta have sheltered in Muslim neighborhoods, sleeping on streets, in doorways and in makeshift tent camps and centers run by NGOs and locals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of sheltered

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The deal was negotiated by MK2 Films, which boarded the film for sales prior to the Venice film festival, and Neon.

— Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
The deal was negotiated by MK2 Films, who boarded the film for sales prior to the Venice film festival, and Neon.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of boarded

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Tokamaks rely partly on electric currents flowing through the plasma to help keep it confined, while stellarators use complex arrangements of external magnetic coils to create a three-dimensional magnetic field.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
However, the issue of government officials and employees using their access to place bets on prediction markets is not confined to the Pentagon.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026