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noun

ˈpärk How to pronounce park (audio)
Definition of parknext
as in yard
the area around and belonging to a building the tycoon's country estate is surrounded by a 500-acre park

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verb

as in to station

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Recent Examples of park
Noun
Several popular locations are closed and dozens have been evacuated, park officials said. — Michael Loria, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Instead, the park’s makeup team constructed prosthetic eyelashes that hide a rice-sized LED light that hangs in front of the performer’s eyes. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
But the risk that such projects could turn into multibillion-dollar boondoggles has some Wall Street shops looking for safer corners of the power market in which to park their money. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The City of Minneapolis website notes there are no-riding zones downtown, including areas where riders cannot stop and park the scooters. — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for park
Recent Examples of Synonyms for park
  1. yard
  2. station
  3. locate
  4. plant
  5. position
  6. situate
  7. camp
  8. deploy
Noun
  • Foster made the most of the opportunity, tallying seven catches for 73 yards and a touchdown in the preseason and standing out throughout training camp.
    — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Missouri Southern’s Tillman Martin, who played in high school at Liberty North, completed 21 of 38 pass attempts for 210 yards and two touchdowns.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of yard
Verb
  • Once again, Menon will be stationed in Canada's 56-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, while Adenot will be tethered to the space station.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The first-stage booster for this mission made its fleet-leading 37th trip to space with a recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of station
Verb
  • He was located in Indiana, where he is being held pending extradiction, the release said.
    — Elgin Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • According to police, crews with the Westport Police Department located the vessel, a white 1998 Seamaster, and found that it was submerged.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of locate
Verb
  • The island, just over 2 miles long, was created in the late 1960s from sand dredged during the deepening of the Elbe shipping channel that serves the port of Hamburg, then left to itself and gradually planted over.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Standing at two hours and 30 minutes, along with a 15-minute intermission, the narrative plants you in the middle of a world of ironies.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of plant
Verb
  • Firms with proprietary data that is valuable to AI agents should be better positioned to prosper, while software companies that offer little beyond functionality — and have few other sources of customer stickiness — could struggle.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian and Stephen Henriques, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The people who move toward that space now position themselves at the front of a wave that will generate new roles and opportunities for years.
    — Stacy L. Hambleton, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of position
Verb
  • There, situated 750,000 miles beyond the moon, Roman will begin its science mission to study dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Cuomo was born in New York City and raised in various spiritual communities around the Northeast, including Yogaville, an ashram then situated in Pomfret, Connecticut.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of situate
Verb
  • Thus, Cardoso was allowed to camp in the paint and create a one-player obstacle a the rim.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • But be prepared for long mountain views, longer mountain hikes, camping under the northern lights and singing along with howling wolves.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of camp
Verb
  • On paper, deploying Wade creates an obvious advantageous matchup.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • In the meantime, the observatory will go through commissioning — testing out its instruments in space and deploying the antenna that will relay Roman’s massive imagery back to Earth.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of deploy

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