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noun

Definition of coating

as in backing

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verb

present participle of coat

as in covering

to form a layer over thicken the sauce until it will coat the back of a spoon

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Recent Examples of coating

Noun

Just like brand-new towels, this coating will leave the fibers feeling slippery, reducing their ability to absorb water. — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 30 June 2026 Even more promising for the auto industry, the coating showed excellent long-term stability when the researchers exposed it to water and humidity tests. — New Atlas, 26 June 2026

Verb

The velvety sauce combines peanut butter, coconut cream, ginger, and garlic, coating every piece of tofu with nutty, lip-smacking flavor. — Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 June 2026 Standing before it, Khalaf saw how the wall of the adjacent building had toppled onto the ground floor, flooding the shop with rubble and coating everything with a film of fine gray dust. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for coating

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Noun

The trend has grown large enough to attract backing from Saregama, one of India’s oldest music labels.

— Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Perhaps the most striking thing about this savage beatdown is its sweetly melodic backing track.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026

Definition of backing

Verb

Robbie Ray threw six efficient innings after regrouping from a fall while covering first base, Willy Adames hit a two-run double as part of a four-run opening frame and the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 on Saturday night.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
Maybe Bill Plaschke would be aware of that, and give due credit, if his hometown major newspaper bothered to have a dedicated correspondent covering one of the city’s NBA teams.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026

Definition of covering

Noun

Blue Square may be the most public-facing of these monitoring efforts, and, with Kraft’s money and platform, the best known, thanks to its Super Bowl ads and its association with America’s most popular sport.

— Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2026
The problem was our infrastructure is entirely internal-facing, and building an external environment from scratch takes time, money and people.

— Rizwan Jan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of facing

Verb

The offer sheet comes 14 years after the Flyers, under previous management, offer-sheeting Nashville defenseman Shea Weber for $110 million over 14 years, which the Predators matched.

— Dan Gelston, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Both Bestor and architect Tim Barber, who counts Matt Duffer and Ramin Djawadi as clients, employ Densdeck Roof Boards and Densinglas sheeting, a fiberglass-matt gypsum panel considered sustainable because of its durability and recycled content, in their work.

— Abigail Stone, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of sheeting

Noun

Twenty years later, that experiment is a global brand doing hundreds of millions in revenue, and the wrapper still looks unevenly broken on purpose, a small reminder of the inequality the whole company exists to fix.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
That is why registered dietitians often single RXBAR out when clients ask what to actually look for on a protein bar wrapper.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 6, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026

Definition of wrapper

Verb

Flowers completely cover the needle-like foliage, carpeting the garden in vibrant pink, purple, and violet-red blooms.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
During the rainy winter and early spring months, otherworldly photos of the park make the rounds online, showing brilliant yellow, pink, and purple blooms carpeting an otherwise lunar landscape.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026

Definition of carpeting

Noun

While the streaming service recently eliminated its free trial directly through the site, customers who sign up for one of DirecTV’s Signature packages will get three months of Paramount+ Premium included at no cost.

— Erin Lassner, HollywoodReporter, 4 July 2026
Included in the Distributed Digital Systems (DDiS) program package, the control system supervises and manages installations in the fields of energy, propulsion, diving safety and auxiliary systems.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026

Definition of package

Verb

With one acrobatic slam after another, Yaxel Lendeborg cut through the sleepy atmosphere blanketing the pregame layup lines, injecting some energy into a crowd that was waiting to watch the team’s first summer league game at Chase Center on Friday.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Also, science reporter Denise Chow talks about the extreme heat blanketing the nation just in time for its 250th birthday.

— Michelle Garcia, NBC news, 30 June 2026

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