How to Use provision in a Sentence

provision

1 of 2 noun
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  • We brought enough provisions to last the entire trip.
  • I carried my provisions in one large backpack.
  • He made provisions to donate part of his fortune to charity after he died.
  • You should make provision for emergencies.
  • Provisions should be made for regular inspections.
  • That new provision may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back for Merck.
    — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
  • Not bad for an idea hatched in the ’90s to make use of an obscure French tax provision.
    — Andrew Barker, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
  • That provision led critics to say the bill opens the way to late-term abortions.
    — Randall Chase, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
  • There was no provision to allow the news media or the public to see the footage.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Those fears proved to be unfounded and the provision was left alone.
    — Kevin Crowley, David Wethe and Alex Nussbaum, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Tax provisions would add another $17 billion to the cost of the bill.
    — Author: Mike Debonis, Erica Werner, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The tax bill didn’t touch that provision, Carcone said.
    — Aimee Picchi, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The provision does not apply to any deal made after that.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • That provision has been the background music to Trump's life.
    — Russ Buettner, Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
  • That means that all the law’s provisions remain in effect.
    — Mark Sherman, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2018
  • An obscure provision of the law shouldn’t be taken as a license to ignore the rest of it.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The judge halted enforcement of those provisions of the law.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • Know your dining options onboard the train, and pack snacks and provisions just in case.
    — Linda Loyd, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Another provision of the bill ends once and for all the practice of lunch shaming.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • But books are not the only items impacted by the new provisions.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Wasn’t there some provision for white children who crossed that street?
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 21 Nov. 2019
  • One of the provisions is evaluating the future of team golf.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • State law makes no provision that cities must have a bidding process for the sale of property, Cate said.
    — Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 23 Feb. 2022
  • In response to those concerns, a provision was added for the law’s impact on free speech to be reviewed in three years.
    — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 15 June 2022
  • That initiative would include some of the same provisions as the current bill.
    — Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • But the deal fell apart after it was amended to include the child-sharing provision.
    — Dara Kam, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Lobbyists for the groups who stand to make money on this provision.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Democrats and voting rights advocates seized on this provision in the law.
    — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The border provisions sent over in September are a joke.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The dollar limits mean this provision won't add up to huge tax savings.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
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provision

2 of 2 verb
  • They stopped to provision the ship.
  • Souleye’s method of provisioning changes by the day, by the hour.
    — Nicole Cliffe, SELF, 26 June 2019
  • This was to provision a large gathering of folks with a hankering for free snacks.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Those who stayed quickly ate all the papayas and coconut palms, forcing researchers to provision them with food.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The launch of the Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, module is the first of 11 missions to build and provision the station and send up a three-person crew by the end of next year.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 14 May 2021
  • In the case of Jacob Collier, the 22-year-old Londoner seems to emanate enough creativity to provision a big band.
    — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 2 June 2017
  • Bottom Line Gains for the bottom-line could be significant, absorbing some of the shock from the billions in loan losses provisioned by banks.
    — Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2020
  • The company also can arrange to provision your RV with groceries prior to your arrival.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • My mother had provisioned herself with two snowsuits, a hefty flask of vodka and five quart bags of homemade dehydrated fruit.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
  • How do companies now provision office space when the work habits of Americans are so uncertain?
    — Ken Ashley, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Skinny, poorly nourished plains females, which have fewer resources to provision their eggs and tadpoles, seem more hot to trot with outsiders.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
  • Tens of thousands of rival forces still must be knitted together into a single army, a process that the U.N. and others have called behind schedule and poorly provisioned.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel, and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards.
    — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Then came the letters carried out by the teams of divers who took oxygen, food and medicine to the boys' refuge as experts pondered whether to dive them out or provision them for months while the monsoon season continues until at least late October.
    — Kaweewit Kaewjinda and Stephen Wright, Houston Chronicle, 10 July 2018
  • Then came the letters carried out by the teams of divers who took oxygen, food and medicine to the boys’ refuge as experts pondered whether to dive them out or provision them for months while the monsoon season continues until at least late October.
    — Kaweewit Kaewjinda and Stephen Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
  • Catering is their new frontier, provisioning parties and events throughout the Southeast under the leadership of Katie Wilson.
    — Eric Velasco, al, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel, and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards.
    — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Southwest says the ramp agent had been operating a provisioning truck, which is used to supply material for flights, including food and drink.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
  • Daimler initially provisioned less than €1 billion to address the problem, but on Friday set aside an extra €1.6 billion.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • Such responses reflect the lack of well-provisioned, comfortable women’s spaces in many mosques and the scarcity of women in mosque leadership positions.
    — Anna Piela, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
  • The company says ships can provide up to 1,000 rooms and are able to be quickly provisioned with the necessary medical equipment, including intensive care units.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Furthermore, women could obtain both these resources on their own, freeing them from relying on men to provision them and their children with high-quality food.
    — Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • The company also had to provision 818 million reais due a dispute involving an offshore drilling vessel.
    — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Under-provisioned banks are also unwilling to lend more, which means investment by private companies may shrink this year.
    — Dhwani Pandya, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • On Tuesday, Russians were already sleeping in bunks at bases that American troops had spent years building and provisioning only to abandon them in haste just hours earlier.
    — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Eoan made this pool 2GB, which is twice what a conservative /boot is normally provisioned to; this is probably to allow headroom to maintain a fairly deep archive of snapshots in the future.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Back seat space is also beautifully provisioned and almost too nice to soil with family duty.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • In an industry that can't abide spending a few millimeters of space on a headphone jack, slotting a plastic chip into your device just to provision you for service is unacceptable.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Today, many modern birds, mammals, and lizards provide a range of support, from protecting eggs and juveniles to actively provisioning their young and showing them how to forage.
    — Tim Vernimmen, National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Teams still provision for peak resource requirements, leaving much of their infrastructure idle.
    — Glenn Solomon, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023

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