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So many people have been boarding freight trains north that one of Mexico's main railroad operators last week suspended some services, citing fears for migrants' safety.

From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023

Suppose you have been boarding or visiting for a month or two in a stranger family, and some one asks you if they live well, what do you understand him to mean?

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail

What an odd, pleasant, humorous, melancholy feeling it is to sit in the study, alone and quiet, now all these people are gone who have been boarding and lodging with me for twenty months!

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

But Henrietta and I have been boarding for a good many years now—ever since mother died—and we have seen a good deal of all kinds of boarders.

From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John