batching

verb

present participle of batch
as in clustering

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for batching
  1. clustering
  2. grouping
  3. stacking
  4. bunching
  5. assembling
  6. piling
  7. collecting
  8. lumping
Verb
  • Rockstar has a track record of clustering major beats around its parent company’s reporting dates, and a trailer ahead of that call would give the company’s brass something to point at as a symbol of unquestionable success.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • CorPower's commercial plan involves clustering dozens of buoys into arrays called CorPacks, each capable of producing hundreds of megawatts.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2026
Definition of clustering
Verb
  • Start small by grouping items by type, discarding excess, and using storage solutions to maintain order and functionality.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In their first reps of 11-on-11s, the Patriots deployed a base personnel grouping with three defensive tackles and three inside linebackers (Spillane, Elliss and Muma).
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouping
Verb
  • But there’s no reason to avoid stacking shades of mocha, caramel, walnut in one ensemble.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2026
  • But for those craving something other than epic spectacle, Universal is stacking the lineup by releasing the small-scale romcom One Night Only, starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of stacking
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  • It’s made from a breathable cotton blend with a bit of stretch, has removable pads that are designed to keep their shape without bunching up, and comes in 23 colors and patterns.
    — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
  • Immigration courts inside the Justice Department are drastically accelerating immigrants' hearings and bunching them together with the goal of issuing more deportation orders.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 26 May 2026
Definition of bunching
Verb
  • The project will add domestic capacity for assembling, integrating, and testing Wärtsilä engines used for ship propulsion and auxiliary power.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Nvidia is assembling a $500 billion pot from a who’s who of Wall Street firms which will, in turn, backstop OpenAI’s lease of a SoftBank data center in Ohio and help startups rent access to Nvidia’s chips from CoreWeave.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • In other words, dollars committed are piling up more than four times faster than hardware coming off the line.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • On this night of all nights, the youngsters at play aren’t just piling into Ubers like spoiled rich kids.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of piling
Verb
  • Medical providers are collecting larger shares of what patients might owe at a time when rising deductibles mean patients are owing more for care.
    — Julie Appleby, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In Bogotá, Red Cross facilities were collecting aid that was being transported with support from the Colombian Aerospace Force.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of collecting
Verb
  • There were some who diminished the novels, lumping them with the frothy stories of such bestselling contemporaries as Danielle Steel or Judith Krantz.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • DeSantis has targeted Democrats for defeat by lumping parts of deep-blue Broward with red pockets in adjoining counties that have nothing in common with cities such as Plantation, Sunrise and Weston.
    — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026
Definition of lumping
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