Example Sentences

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The Macquarie analysts expect flat bad and doubtful debts in the current fiscal year and say NAB is well provisioned relative to peers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

He provisioned his ship and gave to the Coast Miwoks who greeted him pieces of blue-and- white Chinese porcelain that he had evidently “liberated” from the Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025

UT itself hosts an annual Free Speech Week in which outside influence is encouraged on campus—and is specifically outlined as protected, provisioned for, and celebrated.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2024

He has argued that Ukraine needs to be properly provisioned to fend off Russia’s much bigger force.

From Washington Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Several were even provisioned with a broom—a cozy, domestic touch.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson