furnish
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In addition to checking off my goals, I was also heavily encouraged to shop for my bird’s closet, furnish his apartment, and complete the in-app quests.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Unlike many of his prime ministerial predecessors, MacDonald - the son of a farm labourer and housemaid - was not independently wealthy and had less money to furnish Downing Street.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I used one in my neighborhood to unload things I couldn’t sell and to furnish the new apartment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
“People buy homes from one company, finance them through another, furnish them through a third and renovate them with someone else,” Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Marcus Lemonis said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Paul Revere said, ‘I can furnish twenty or more from about North Square.’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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The dating test furnishes a neat illustration: three profiles—identical in every respect except astrological sign, all showing the same picture of a young man named “Michael”—were created on a popular Chinese dating app.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
It also furnishes Ukraine’s military with battlefield intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
It leases units from property owners, furnishes the apartments and then rents the units to tenants and businesses that need long-term housing for their workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
This non-invasive method furnishes direct, semiquantitative evidence of amyloid deposits in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
When he’s not painting, he furnishes the house.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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Soon after her death, they received a council tax bill that included a charge for "premium furnished and no-one resident", doubling the annual amount owed to more than £4,000.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
A man who has not been publicly identified has been “living” inside the billboard since Thursday, in what resembles a fully furnished, air-conditioned living room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Mike Shell, chief investment officer of Shell Capital, said that he has seen data furnished by his prime brokers that suggest this latest momentum liquidation is closer to its end than its beginning.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
A few days later, Rettig was settling into a furnished room at the Sacred Heart Residence in the Chelsea neighborhood as a nun showed her around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The regiment was living at that time in a school building furnished with folding wooden beds, and when the surviving aircrews returned to their bunks they were stricken to see eight beds still folded up.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Spending at furniture and home furnishing stores grew 1% from the previous month after falling 1.5% in April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
That means dupes are just one of many issues facing home furnishing and improvement stocks that may leave investors feeling like suckers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
Or you could buy yourself a $10m house every day for 250 years, and still have change for furnishing and decorating.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
I would tell anybody, “Don’t spend time other than to connect with teammates, work out, study film. Don’t spend time buying houses, furnishing houses, any of that stuff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
When he visited Olanna and Odenigbo, though, she said, “I’m sure you must want to make the place a little more habitable,” so he said “Yes,” although he liked the soulless furnishing.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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