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as in stored
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
an eccentric who cached money in odd places, such as under the boards of the floor
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as in buried
to put into a hiding place
cached the fugitives in their cellar until they could make their way to Canada
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Recent Examples of cached
This Mars Sample Return project was well underway, with specimens cached on Mars ready for retrieval, but is now in limbo because of budget cuts.
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Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
22 June 2026
There was also a supply of gas cached at the campsite.
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Doris Decleene,
Outdoor Life,
25 Feb. 2026
The data on genomes that are cached in the museum will be open-sourced, providing researchers and geneticists around the world with information on all 10,000 species, in pursuit of conservation or de-extinction projects similar to what Colossal achieved with the dire wolf.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
4 Feb. 2026
The team cached model weights on network file storage rather than downloading them from external repositories, reducing model loading time by 10-15%.
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Janakiram Msv,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
This prevents session hijacking if the system keeps tokens cached.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Sep. 2025
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
22 June 2026
There was also a supply of gas cached at the campsite.
—
Doris Decleene,
Outdoor Life,
25 Feb. 2026
The data on genomes that are cached in the museum will be open-sourced, providing researchers and geneticists around the world with information on all 10,000 species, in pursuit of conservation or de-extinction projects similar to what Colossal achieved with the dire wolf.
—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
4 Feb. 2026
The team cached model weights on network file storage rather than downloading them from external repositories, reducing model loading time by 10-15%.
—
Janakiram Msv,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
This prevents session hijacking if the system keeps tokens cached.
—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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The blaze ignited Wednesday at the nearly 500,000-square-foot cold storage facility run by a company called Lineage, beginning on the roof, which caused a partial collapse and moved the flames into the building, where 85 million pounds of food are stored.
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Most of the creatine in your body is stored in your muscles, and smaller amounts are stored in your brain.
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What was left of other buildings were buried under piles of their own debris.
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Long ago, the blue-skinned inhabitants committed genocide against a race of purple-skinned aliens and buried their bones beneath the earth, an event in which Krem was involved.
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That means that the publicly available fund spending numbers don’t always capture what schools might have stashed away in their accounts.
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If your closet is one of the many that has a drawer stashed with an abundance of old T-shirts, welcome to the club.
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Then the four co-owners emerge from the wine shop, waving wine bottles concealed in brown paper bags.
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These rolling carts can add organization to any room in your home, and these rich-looking cabinets keep items contained and concealed.
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“Cached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cached. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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