as in stashing
the placing of something out of sight
the caching of holiday gifts in the weeks before Christmas
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as in storing
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
an eccentric who cached money in odd places, such as under the boards of the floor
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as in concealing
to put into a hiding place
cached the fugitives in their cellar until they could make their way to Canada
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Recent Examples of caching
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
Jack Ewing,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
Once engineering owns the bill, prompt engineering and caching stop being optimizations and become standard practice.
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Anand Murugan,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
Last week’s CopyFail exploited faulty page caching in the authencesn AEAD template process, which is used for IPsec extended sequence numbers.
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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.
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Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
20 Apr. 2026
Performance is handled through LiteSpeed servers with built-in caching and optimization.
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Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
8 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.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
The new chip has a second-generation caching architecture that helps to double its ability to do math, the company said.
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Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
For gaming, the new M4 iPad offers dynamic caching and real-time ray tracing, so graphics in graphically intensive games will look better, and run at a higher frame rate.
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Ben Sin,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
Super frugal use of memory bandwidth, caching exactly what is needed & squeezing microseconds out of everything are needed to maintain the frame rate.
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Jack Ewing,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
Once engineering owns the bill, prompt engineering and caching stop being optimizations and become standard practice.
—
Anand Murugan,
Forbes.com,
27 May 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
Performance is handled through LiteSpeed servers with built-in caching and optimization.
—
Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
8 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
The new chip has a second-generation caching architecture that helps to double its ability to do math, the company said.
—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
For gaming, the new M4 iPad offers dynamic caching and real-time ray tracing, so graphics in graphically intensive games will look better, and run at a higher frame rate.
—
Ben Sin,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caching
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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.
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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.
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Google stopped storing location data on its servers in 2023 and leaves the information on individual phones now.
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Protect leather shoes and handbags by storing them in airtight containers with the silica gel pouches they are packaged with.
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An advocacy group trying to investigate DOGE’s influence on the Federal Communications Commission accused the FCC of failing to comply with a public records request and of concealing Chairman Brendan Carr’s use of the Signal messaging service.
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Trees tower over the cemetery, and branches stretch across the fence, concealing the entrance from passersby.
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Tall bushes and hiding spots may draw copperheads, as can food sources.
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After the suspect continued hiding inside the home, deputies deployed a standard drone, used for all interior searches and barricaded subjects, and found him in the corner of a garage.
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Some firms incentivize hoarding clients even as the end approaches.
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Nobody is better at hoarding stocks.
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The structure suddenly collapsed, burying the people within.
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Since then, the city has touted its success in burying most of its wires while keeping rates competitive with other utilities.
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This hormone improves insulin sensitivity and stimulates GLP-1 secretion.
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During digestion, proteins stimulate the secretion of glucagon and insulin, two hormones that work together to maintain stable blood sugar levels.
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His attorney, Erias Lukwago, was taken from his house and later charged with an offense related to the concealment of treason.
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In Ukraine and beyond, drones have already changed the relationship between concealment and exposure.
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