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verb

past tense of feed
1
as in boarded
to provide food or meals for a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry

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2
as in provided
to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article

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3
as in ate
to take a meal an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively

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Recent Examples of fed
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The children did not attend school, were fed poorly and did not receive medical attention even if injured or sick, according to the report. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 This plasma pasta wraps around the black hole and is gradually fed to it, with some former star stuff being ejected as near-light-speed jets. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 His soaring imagination, fed by a lifetime of curiosity and research, is matched by his exceptional craft. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026 The Himalayan landmass, where last week’s deadly flooding in Nepal and China took place, rises from shifting fault lines and is sliced by mighty rivers that are fed by glaciers. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026 Leah was the parent who fed the children, changed their diapers, bathed them, and planned to homeschool them. — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 That came when scientists fed coral records into multiple climate models. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026 For the solar side, Ryan wired the solar panels straight into a single charge controller – a Genasun GVB-8 boost MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) unit – which then fed directly into the battery. — New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026 Recycled cement waste can be fed into the plasma process as a raw material, and potentially cut both waste and carbon emissions. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fed
  1. tracker
  2. boarded
  3. provided
  4. ate
  5. narc
  6. catered
  7. supplied
  8. dined
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  • Storm tracker Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver are national correspondents for USA TODAY, with a focus on weather and climate.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • But in Idaho — and Wyoming and West Virginia — Trump garnered a positive approval rating, according to August projections by the Economist, based on its tracker of YouGov polling over time.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 28 Aug. 2026
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Verb
  • Hanway Films has boarded Luca Guadagnino‘s Bernardo Bertolucci documentary Joie De Vivre, which debuts at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Following the game, the team boarded a red-eye flight back to Newark Liberty International Airport.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of boarded
Verb
  • According to a probable cause affidavit, the former campaign manager gave local police a black nylon glove that Ross is alleged to have provided in June.
    — Ava Kelley, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In an unintentionally Dickensian fashion, a recent batch of BLS reports provided some deeper context as to how the labor market is being reshaped.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of provided
Verb
  • On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of ate
Noun
  • But the very act of putting on a wearable—of willingly adorning oneself with a tiny computerized narc—is an act of surrender.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The team's 33-15 loss gave it a 2-11 record, which is the worst nark in the NFC.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
Definition of narc
Verb
  • William Gottlieb’s suit also notes that Urban Zen hosts catered gatherings that generate food garbage, therefore creating fodder for the rats.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 25 Aug. 2026
  • On June 27, the caller was holding a baby shower that was catered when a suspect stole a Louis Vuitton purse, which was valued at approximately $2,500, from the caller’s bedroom.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of catered
Verb
  • Turkey is known to have supplied Sudan’s military with TB2 drones after the country’s current civil war began in April 2023.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The recall is connected to an ongoing multistate salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeños supplied by Coast Citrus Distributors.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of supplied
Verb
  • The new couple—who have been linked since they were photographed together at Coachella—dined around the city, showing off their coordinating couple style.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Throngs of guests dined, shopped and meandered through the upscale mall over the weekend, bringing life to the shuttered complex that sat vacant for 19 months due to the devastating Palisades fire.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of dined

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“Fed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fed. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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