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as in clusters
a number of things considered as a unit
an array of baseball gloves in the corner of his room
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as in groups
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
a motley array of travelers waiting for the bus
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as in sequences
the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another
a marching band's carefully choreographed array
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as in armies
a large body of men and women organized for land warfare
feudal lords depended upon their array for defense
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as in decorates
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
a door arrayed for the holidays with a beautiful evergreen wreath
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as in clothes
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
arrayed in a wedding dress that has been handed down in the family for generations
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as in arranges
to put into a particular arrangement
arrayed his baseball cards in order of their rarity and consequent monetary value
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Recent Examples of arrays
Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Aikido envisions eventually sprinkling its data centers among large arrays of offshore turbines to tap into that larger power infrastructure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2026
Today, the focus is shifting toward servers and solar arrays as governments and private companies rethink where the world's most powerful computers should operate.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
The problem is that everything else, from building massive solar arrays to lowering launch costs, moves far more slowly than today’s AI hype cycle.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
Solar users can continue topping up via Charger 2 from rooftop panels or portable arrays, making full use of the Elite 300’s 1,200W solar input.
—New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026
Community opposition has delayed, threatened or led to the cancellation of projects to build new transmission lines, solar arrays, windmills, and battery storage facilities.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
By building arrays of outdoor telescopes that gather and focus that blue light, these Čerenkov telescopes can help us reconstruct the original direction and energy of these ultra-fast cosmic rays that strike and interact with Earth’s atmosphere.
—Big Think, 30 Jan. 2026
Binoculars and telescopes, though, will provide an enhanced view that could even unveil details like the station's solar arrays and individual modules, according to the Planetary Society.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
Or at least carve out a little business as a component supplier of solar arrays.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
However, new constellations like Amazon Leo and AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird satellite arrays only deepen the problem.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
This is enabled by collecting data using telescope arrays like CHARA, which is made up of dozens of antennas spread across a large area that, when all trained on the same point in the sky, act as one massive telescope.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026
The company's recent shift to support external storage arrays directly addresses this limitation.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The scientists fabricated arrays that possessed up to 129,500 metalenses.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
Since then, researchers around the world have aimed their telescopes and sensitive equipment arrays at it as the comet continues its 130,000 mile-per-hour journey through our stellar neighborhood.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025
Then there’s field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, which can be reconfigured with software after they’re made.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
Noun
Community solar, in which residents get a discount on their bills for subscribing as a group to small solar arrays nearby, was designed to help low-income residents, apartment dwellers, renters and others who can’t put panels on their own roofs.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Aikido envisions eventually sprinkling its data centers among large arrays of offshore turbines to tap into that larger power infrastructure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2026
Today, the focus is shifting toward servers and solar arrays as governments and private companies rethink where the world's most powerful computers should operate.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
The problem is that everything else, from building massive solar arrays to lowering launch costs, moves far more slowly than today’s AI hype cycle.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
Solar users can continue topping up via Charger 2 from rooftop panels or portable arrays, making full use of the Elite 300’s 1,200W solar input.
—New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026
Community opposition has delayed, threatened or led to the cancellation of projects to build new transmission lines, solar arrays, windmills, and battery storage facilities.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
By building arrays of outdoor telescopes that gather and focus that blue light, these Čerenkov telescopes can help us reconstruct the original direction and energy of these ultra-fast cosmic rays that strike and interact with Earth’s atmosphere.
—Big Think, 30 Jan. 2026
Binoculars and telescopes, though, will provide an enhanced view that could even unveil details like the station's solar arrays and individual modules, according to the Planetary Society.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
But the censor does prohibit us from putting out live broadcasts of intercepts that could reveal the accuracy of Iranian ballistic missiles or the location of interceptor missile arrays.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
Or at least carve out a little business as a component supplier of solar arrays.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
However, new constellations like Amazon Leo and AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird satellite arrays only deepen the problem.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
This is enabled by collecting data using telescope arrays like CHARA, which is made up of dozens of antennas spread across a large area that, when all trained on the same point in the sky, act as one massive telescope.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026
The company's recent shift to support external storage arrays directly addresses this limitation.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The scientists fabricated arrays that possessed up to 129,500 metalenses.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
Since then, researchers around the world have aimed their telescopes and sensitive equipment arrays at it as the comet continues its 130,000 mile-per-hour journey through our stellar neighborhood.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025
Then there’s field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, which can be reconfigured with software after they’re made.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrays
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In late spring to summer, clusters of wide, white flowers bloom on the vines.—
Zoe Gowen,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2026
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Of course, there are also regions that have hot, ionized material in the way, such as around active galaxies or in passing through galaxy clusters that have hot, X-ray emitting intracluster mediums.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Mar. 2026
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Roozbeh Farahanipour, a former Iranian dissident who now lives in Los Angeles, worries that a destabilized Iran, with its complex cultural heritage and patchwork of ethnic and religious groups, could devolve into a far worse mess than post-invasion Iraq.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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At times, groups of works are organized around joined tables, on top of which are placed perishables preserved in lead, resin, or plaster.—
Li Qi,
Artforum,
6 Mar. 2026
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Fragment-sequences in time swept toward a place before history, before chronology, where everything that ever-happened fades, where past present and future exist all at once in the sea of African time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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From thunderous victory to shattering downfall, this play delivers sweeping action sequences, political intrigue, and a theatrical experience that hits with the force of a battle drum.—
Cincinnati Enquirer,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Mar. 2026
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Enrigue’s novel is inspired by the long-running Apache Wars of the 19th century, a series of brutal skirmishes between various Apache bands and the armies of the United States and Mexico.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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My question is whether there is anything in the resolution which would authorize or recommend or approve the landing of large American armies in Vietnam or in China.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2026
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The iconic Burberry pattern, which is known as the Burberry Check, decorates the sole of the shoe, adding more brand identity to the shoes.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Ink decorates her hands and wrists, poking out from under the sleeves of her gray cashmere cardigan.—
Nicola Dall'Asen,
Allure,
5 Feb. 2026
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While in the country, Harry and Meghan are also planning to visit several on-the-ground initiatives funded by their Archewell Foundation, including one that arranges for children injured in the Gaza war to be medically evacuated for treatment in Jordan.—
Diego Parrado,
Vanity Fair,
25 Feb. 2026
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Once the quartet finally arrives in Tijuana, a wizard-like smuggler arranges their death-defying crossing.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2026
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Working in batches, drop batter into hot oil using tablespoon or a cookie scoop, and fry, turning as needed until deep golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes per batch.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2026
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Small variations in material batches or production partner timelines can push delivery windows by months.—
Omar Kardoudi
March 05,
New Atlas,
5 Mar. 2026
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Mar. 2026
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Rather than looking for the galaxy directly, the research team searched for tight groupings of globular clusters, dense spherical groups of stars that orbit galaxies and can serve as signposts for hidden galaxies nearby.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Arrays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrays. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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