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
Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Optimize for speed in the critical path using edge caching and asynchronous delivery while routing validation, retries and observability through a reliability layer that doesn’t block user experience.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 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
In the nineteen-eighties, scientists found that food-caching species have larger hippocampi than other species.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
His most recent post included a workout video of caching footballs at a training facility.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Matt Robinson is the Deputy Delivery Manager for the Sample Caching System on the Mars 2020 rover, which covers the robotic arm itself, the drill at the end of the arm, and the sample caching system within the body of the rover that manages the samples.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2019
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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
Optimize for speed in the critical path using edge caching and asynchronous delivery while routing validation, retries and observability through a reliability layer that doesn’t block user experience.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 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
In the nineteen-eighties, scientists found that food-caching species have larger hippocampi than other species.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
His most recent post included a workout video of caching footballs at a training facility.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Matt Robinson is the Deputy Delivery Manager for the Sample Caching System on the Mars 2020 rover, which covers the robotic arm itself, the drill at the end of the arm, and the sample caching system within the body of the rover that manages the samples.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caching
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By embedding living bacteria into the world’s most common building material, the team has created a supercapacitor capable of storing electricity.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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The integration of pg_vector extension enables storing and querying millions of vectors with millisecond response times, supporting real-time AI applications that process unstructured data alongside traditional business records.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Shoplifting over $250 by concealing.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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My District 2 neighbors are making clear that concealing identities already undermines trust, strips away civil liberties and sets a dangerous precedent.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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The film crew had to manufacture one of those toy stores to stand-in for the hiding spot for Manchester for the movie.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, the government department revealed how the children were doing following years of hiding in the wilderness.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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The individual has been cooperating with officials and initially showed the FBI text messages from Robinson about stashing a gun linked to the Kirk shooting.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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But stashing items along the trail is problematic.—
Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff,
Denver Post,
11 Sep. 2025
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Significantly diseased leaves should be raked and removed from the area and disposed of properly, such as by burying, burning where allowed, or hot composting, according to UW-Madison.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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In video footage of the tragedy obtained by ViralPress, Praphrom could be seen inspecting a collapsed road from a trench opening below, before soil and concrete fell and struck the back of his neck, pinning him to the ground and burying him.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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Look for unusual stains or scents around your windows or on your upholstered furniture, which could potentially be signs of insect secretions.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Sep. 2025
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Holding a Sonoran Desert toad and squeezing the slimy glands on its head to extract its toxic secretions is a strange experience.—
Christopher Timmermann,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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The notion of an NBA team hoarding cap space — and then having nobody great to spend it on — would have been a comical concept 15 years ago, when star players traditionally waited for free agency before securing generational wealth.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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Anyway, besides a chance to go on holiday overseas, the international dates are allowing hardcore fans — those who were on board the first time, and those, like Kieran, who demographically just missed ‘em then — to indulge in Oasis hoarding before the possible long winter ahead.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
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While the classic grounds for denaturalization include concealment of criminal histories or material lies in the naturalization process, there are growing indications that serious tax fraud may be viewed as evidence that naturalization was procured illegally or fraudulently.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The containerized system also supports camouflage and concealment in contested environments.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Caching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caching. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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