caching 1 of 2

as in stashing
the placing of something out of sight the caching of holiday gifts in the weeks before Christmas

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caching

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verb

present participle of cache
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Recent Examples of caching
Noun
Squirrels, other rodents and a variety of birds typically do the caching, storing the acorns to be eaten later when conditions soften the outer shell. Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
Users can choose infrastructure in the United States, the United Kingdom, or Singapore, with HTTP/2, IPv6, CDN support, and edge caching included. Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026 Engineering is increasingly taking on not only how to select and optimize models but also how to analyze and account for prompt efficiency, orchestration, caching and the budget for inference costs. Cheryl Johnson, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Super frugal use of memory bandwidth, caching exactly what is needed & squeezing microseconds out of everything are needed to maintain the frame rate. Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Last week’s CopyFail exploited faulty page caching in the authencesn AEAD template process, which is used for IPsec extended sequence numbers. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026 Why Squirrels Are Attracted to Bulbs Squirrels are food-caching animals, meaning their strategy is to find and store high-calorie foods to sustain them through winter. Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 20 Apr. 2026 Multiple programs and projects face the axe, including the Mars Sample Return Mission, which is currently underway, with the Perseverance rover caching rock and soil samples that a later spacecraft would fly to Mars and collect. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caching
Noun
  • Researchers believe some kind of ritual marked this massive deposit, as the feasting and decorative objects might correspond to an event that might have propelled the stashing away of these astonishing artifacts, as per Heritage Daily.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The Rams have 10 picks in this year’s draft, and that’s too many for any team, but especially one that has been drafting and stashing players after the first round for a few years.
    Nate Atkins, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Spread the breadcrumbs onto a baking sheet or large plate to cool completely before storing.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • In comparison, Tucson’s county seat is storing 300 more unidentified human remains than Los Angeles County — an area home to 9 million more residents, according to NamUs.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Laken Snelling had initially pleaded not guilty after a grand jury indicted her on several charges, including first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The proud mom shared pictures of her and Green cuddling their little one in the hospital room, concealing the newborn’s face in the snaps.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • That move was designed to curb the practice of hiding listings, since sellers likely wouldn’t want to lose the option of listing on Zillow if brokers can’t find a buyer.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Like a hiding fox squirrel, Kontras flattened himself against the trunk of the pine, moving only his head enough to peek glances at the grazing whitetail.
    Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Paige O’Donnell, 62, was arrested following an animal-hoarding investigation at her home.
    Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, about 25 percent of guests have admitted to hoarding a few items from breakfast to snack on later, and 16 percent have helped themselves to the toiletries from the housekeeping cart.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The 19-year-old left-hander could not get out of the first inning, burying low Single-A Lake Elsinore early in a 21-2 loss to visiting San José.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Without adequate reinforcement, shifting ground can cause tunnels to collapse suddenly, burying miners within seconds.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The primary effect of vitamin D is to improve the secretion of insulin by beta-cells in the pancreas, according to Anastassios Pittas, MD, senior author of the study and chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Tufts Medical Center.
    Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Women in ancient Rome used toad secretions to murder their husbands; 16th-century Italian chemists laced salts with toad toxins for poisoning the food of enemies.
    Kimon de Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Chun sentenced Williams to the maximum 25 years to life for second-degree murder, plus a consecutive one-to-three year sentence for concealment of a corpse.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, citizenship may be revoked if it was illegally procured or obtained through the concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Caching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caching. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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