caching 1 of 2

noun

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

2 of 2

verb

present participle of cache
1
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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2
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
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
Third, watch inference optimization, caching, compression and orchestration platforms. — Dr. Suresh Rajappa, Forbes.com, 31 July 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caching
  1. stashing
  2. storing
  3. concealing
  4. hiding
  5. hoarding
  6. burying
  7. secretion
  8. concealment
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
Definition of stashing
Verb
  • Instead of storing this platform ambient heat underground for the winter, just use it right now.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The two reservoirs provide hydroelectricity, drinking and irrigation water to millions of Americans across the West by storing up the Colorado River.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of storing
Verb
  • Well, that’s kind of what the National Institutes of Health is now proposing—concealing from applicants the scores that their grant application receive from scientific peer review.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Amazon, Google, Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI all have demanded nondisclosure agreements with local governments, concealing their identity and intent until deals are almost done.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of concealing
Noun
  • Of course, as scholars like Winters wrote, this kind of oligarchy-hiding-in-plain-sight was part of the package of modern oligarchy—a kind of conscious cloaking that helped these figures rise in the first place, without any kind of public pushback.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
  • As digital products become more capable and feature-rich, teams may be tempted to simplify interfaces by hiding controls, reducing context or removing steps that seem unnecessary.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of hiding
Verb
  • Los Angeles sued its longtime fundraising partner in 2024, accusing GLAZA of breaching agreements and hoarding zoo data and funds.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
  • Retirement savers are hoarding cash Retirement savers also reported keeping a sizeable share of their savings in cash, a choice that bespeaks mistrust in financial markets.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 18 July 2026
Definition of hoarding
Verb
  • That meant clean financial reporting, regulatory discipline, transparency with stakeholders, and a habit of addressing problems rather than burying them.
    — ByThad L. Bench, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Catherine flattens him in the kitchen, burying her death syringe in his eyeball.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of burying
Noun
  • 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
  • Several studies have found that snail mucus secretions can kill bacteria and prevent skin infections from worsening, especially when applied to wounds.
    — Laura Dorwart, Health, 22 July 2026
Definition of secretion
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
Definition of concealment

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