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as in piling
to form into a pile or ridge of earth
banked sand into little mounds on the beach
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as in depositing
to put in an account
she always banks half of her paycheck
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Recent Examples of banking
For the past 50 years, and in anticipation of their demise, scientists have been banking tissue samples of the species in repositories like San Diego’s Frozen Zoo.
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Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
These included shelf registration, relaxed international capital controls, eased restrictions on bank deposits, the rise of index and money market funds, lax oversight of corporate mergers and takeovers, and the creation of banking free-trade zones.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Majority of Pennsylvania's most trustworthy companies in Pittsburgh Of the 700 companies featured, the highest‑ranking Pittsburgh companies span a range of industries, from banking to retail to health care.
—Finch Walker, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Huge government contracts meant plenty of defense capital was floating around, but the city and county were banking none of it.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
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Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
These included shelf registration, relaxed international capital controls, eased restrictions on bank deposits, the rise of index and money market funds, lax oversight of corporate mergers and takeovers, and the creation of banking free-trade zones.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Majority of Pennsylvania's most trustworthy companies in Pittsburgh Of the 700 companies featured, the highest‑ranking Pittsburgh companies span a range of industries, from banking to retail to health care.
—Finch Walker, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Huge government contracts meant plenty of defense capital was floating around, but the city and county were banking none of it.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for banking
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After more than four years, Russia’s full-scale invasion has morphed into a grinding war of attrition where soldiers are being killed en masse, financial losses are piling up and Kyiv has started to liberate more land than Moscow has seized.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
2 June 2026
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In the new Hubble image, some of the gas on the outer edge of M88 can be seen compressing and piling up.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 May 2026
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However, unless select patients have a predisposition to depositing plastics plus the usual pre-existing risk factors, the plastics are likely a cause of the vascular events.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
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After depositing the checks into the accounts, Parente and her co-conspirators then reportedly withdrew or attempted to withdraw money before the bank realized the checks were fraudulent.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
27 May 2026
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Mauricio Pochettino insisted that the United States’ policy of stacking its pre-World Cup schedule with high-quality opposition has been the right approach ahead of the World Cup.—
Tom Bogert,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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That feature gives manufacturers more flexibility when stacking additional circuitry onto existing chips.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 June 2026
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“Banking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banking. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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