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as in had
to keep in one's mind or heart
he had long harbored a grudge against his old employer, who had high-handedly fired him without cause
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as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter
the woods in our suburb harbor deer, foxes, raccoons, and skunks
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as in sheltered
to be or provide a shelter for
the little cabin is harbored from the wind by a thick growth of pines
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Recent Examples of harbored
The attorneys argued that Boyd, who had overseen the case since June 2023, when the officers were arrested, harbored a bias against them because one of them had filed a complaint against her a year prior in an unrelated matter.
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Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harbored
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The event had a party atmosphere with a nerdy tinge.Richard Nieva, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Aldo has picked up a lot more bets (79 percent), but Bautista has had most of the money come in on him at 56 percent.Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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These one- or two-room shacks housed, on average, six enslaved people and had, at most, one window.Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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Floodwaters have devastated the Biltmore Village, which is where the estate's employees are housed.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
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Studies have shown that mail-in voting fraud is rare, even as mail-in voting increased in 2020 to accommodate the millions of Americans sheltered at home during the Covid-19 pandemic.Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
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The ants needed the fungus, however, and so sheltered the fungus in their nests and fed it materials like leaves so that their food might grow.Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
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As of September 30, 2024, the company held $12,895,117 in marketable securities in its Trust Account, with $517,975 in cash available for working capital purposes.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Reading International has classified several properties as held for sale, including assets in Townsville, Australia, and Wellington and Rotorua, New Zealand, as part of its strategy to enhance liquidity.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement The centers will house only adult men, while vulnerable people such as women, children, elderly people and those who are ill or victims of torture will be accommodated in Italy.Llazar Semini, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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The remaining 19 passengers were accommodated by a bus.Greg Norman, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
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This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Dianna Mazzone Singh, Allure, 4 Oct. 2024
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The system isn't interested in the artistic composition or the specific dog in each photo - elements that might be protected by copyright.Roomy Khan, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Rush had the strongest support among those polled, with 88% of the 397 respondents voting saying she should be retained.Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2024
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Horowitz, retained to broker the deal, immediately thought of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, in Tulsa.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Walking upright slowed the transit of food through the system, meaning that waste material became lodged in the bands of the large intestine, setting the flora of the gut off balance and seeping poison into the rest of the body.Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
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Around the time of her departure, Perrette lodged accusations of an assault or a crime.Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Harbored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harbored. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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