1
as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
the standard grouping for an average living room: sofa, matching wing chairs, and the inevitable coffee table
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2
as in group
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
the next grouping of tourists can start the house tour as soon as the last bunch leaves
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1
as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type
you should first group the invertebrates by genus
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as in assembling
to bring together in one body or place
group the kids together and we'll see if they're all here
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Recent Examples of grouping
Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
McDaniels’ most common personnel grouping featured two tight ends, an obvious effort to keep Pittsburgh in base personnel.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Connections is all about grouping words.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Noun
According to Data Golf, the pairing of Morikawa and English ranked as the worst grouping out of 132 possible Ryder Cup pairings.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
McDaniels’ most common personnel grouping featured two tight ends, an obvious effort to keep Pittsburgh in base personnel.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
Create a neutral fall display by grouping elegant white and pale-orange pumpkins.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Connections is all about grouping words.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grouping
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The song was released with the video, an ode to pastels that depicts the changing of the guard from one album to the next with a snake turning into a cluster of butterflies.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Simulating a cosmic storm To test this, the researchers simulated a black hole with a billion solar masses at the center of a galaxy cluster weighing a quadrillion Suns, a thousand times the Milky Way’s mass.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The group recently opened Parks Place to continue the healing journey with up to four program graduates at a time.—
Carin Schoppmeyer,
Arkansas Online,
28 Sep. 2025
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In this atmosphere, microschools blossomed as a reinvention of the one-room schoolhouse that allowed one educator to teach a small group of students.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Forecasters give Sherrill an advantage, with both the Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball classifying the race as Leans Democrat.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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Without establishing any link to last week’s shooting, the Republican president and members of his administration have discussed classifying some groups as domestic terrorists, ordering racketeering investigations and revoking tax-exempt status for progressive nonprofits.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
17 Sep. 2025
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Soon, the show introduces the Guinness family enforcer Sean Rafferty, a steely and strong-jawed James Norton, who’s assembling his men to tamp down on the protestors.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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As the time went by, viewers saw the couple — who tied the knot in 2018 — getting ultrasounds, assembling various baby toys and setting up their nursery, which McCreery told PEOPLE was Winnie the Pooh-themed.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Since the premiere interval reset with the release of the new batch of episodes, there are still 64 days left in Season 2’s window to continue climbing on the most popular list.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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Make a little batch of chocolate bark by spreading it into an even layer on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On the software front, Amazon's baked in a bunch of AI features.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
1 Oct. 2025
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The paper is a new way of combining a bunch of ideas that are already out there, but the method hasn’t yet been proven at scale.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Hong Kong’s financial secretary Paul Chan said Sunday that initial public offerings had raised nearly 150 billion Hong Kong dollars so far this year, ranking top globally.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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With three of the next four opponents having offenses ranking in the bottom 10 in yards per game, the time is now for the Cowboys’ defense to figure out its issues before the gauntlet that awaits in November and December.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
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The initial financial crimes investigation that led to the discovery of the bodies found that Kraus had been collecting his parents’ social security benefits and using the funds for his own personal use, according to police.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Crime Scene Search and MEDIC were also involved in processing the scene and collecting evidence, according to CMPD's press release.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Grouping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grouping. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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