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as in prepared
to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function
years of service in the congress and in the cabinet equipped him better than most people for the office of the presidency
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as in furnished
to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity
a visit to a ski shop to equip ourselves for a week of skiing in the Rockies
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Recent Examples of equipped
Speech recognition, learning and planning, and problem solving are some of the fundamental tasks that computers equipped with artificial intelligence and machine learning are supposed to perform.
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Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
The Sportster 25 Surf is also equipped with Volvo drivetrains and roughly 1,000 pounds of ballast.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024
There are balconies on every floor, plus a front porch equipped with fire pits and snug seating nooks (ideal for enjoying a post-dinner amaro from the lounge, which also serves coffee and Flour Moon bagels in the morning and small dishes all day).
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
Even people’s Ring doorbells, equipped to alert users with messages from other Ring users, began to ping out drone sightings.
—Michael Wilson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Playing cards and jokers can be equipped with enhancements that will increase your score.
—Scott Robertson, Rolling Stone, 24 Dec. 2024
My concern is that, despite being fully grown and then some, I just won’t be adequately equipped.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
This barrage of sensory stimuli asks more of our cognition than it is equipped to handle.
—Richard E. Cytowic, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Among the tactical nuclear weapons stockpile are gravity bombs, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ballistic missile systems, torpedoes, and nuclear mines, as well as nuclear warheads that can be fired by Russian systems equipped for conventional and nuclear payloads.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
The Sportster 25 Surf is also equipped with Volvo drivetrains and roughly 1,000 pounds of ballast.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024
There are balconies on every floor, plus a front porch equipped with fire pits and snug seating nooks (ideal for enjoying a post-dinner amaro from the lounge, which also serves coffee and Flour Moon bagels in the morning and small dishes all day).
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
Even people’s Ring doorbells, equipped to alert users with messages from other Ring users, began to ping out drone sightings.
—Michael Wilson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Playing cards and jokers can be equipped with enhancements that will increase your score.
—Scott Robertson, Rolling Stone, 24 Dec. 2024
My concern is that, despite being fully grown and then some, I just won’t be adequately equipped.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
This barrage of sensory stimuli asks more of our cognition than it is equipped to handle.
—Richard E. Cytowic, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Among the tactical nuclear weapons stockpile are gravity bombs, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ballistic missile systems, torpedoes, and nuclear mines, as well as nuclear warheads that can be fired by Russian systems equipped for conventional and nuclear payloads.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Equipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equipped. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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