carding

Definition of cardingnext
present participle of card
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Verb
  • According to the Farm Bureau, the number of farms filing for Chapter 12 bankruptcies jumped from 216 in 2024 to 315 in 2025, the second consecutive year that number has increased.
    The Virginian Pilot And Daily Press Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • Miami Air International The charter-flights company ceased operations in 2020 after filing for bankruptcy.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • Aerial footage showed officers with guns drawn, combing the campus grounds.
    Julie Sharp, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The day after a man opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, authorities are combing through a message sent by the shooting suspect, seeking to understand what allegedly led him from his life as a respected California teacher to a would-be assassin.
    Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Shirokawa, meanwhile, was a demon on defense, recording four assists on routine-to-difficult grounders and an acrobatic layout for a diving catch of a line drive.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Hoerner has been crafty on the base paths, recording seven steals on seven attempts.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • Even light raking can make a difference; if the seed is scattered on the surface with nothing hold it down, it will be carried away by the water.
    Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Domínguez, meanwhile, has been raking at Triple-A since missing the cut for the Yankees’ Opening Day roster.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Henderson advised travelers to act quickly and plan ahead to combat rising costs, noting that booking flights months or even up to a year in advance can help lock in lower fares.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 2 May 2026
  • Spirit continued to sell tickets at discounts this week in the face of a flying public that was booking away from the airline as publicity grew over its tenuous financial position.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • Inflation has remained stubbornly stuck between 2% and 4% since 2023, and the most recent reading (cataloging how much higher prices were in March compared to a year prior) was the highest inflation data point in two years, driven by rising fuel prices.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In the infrared, this could do everything from revealing the large-scale structure of the early Universe to cataloging far more of the asteroids orbiting in Earth’s vicinity.
    JOHN TIMMER, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • OpenAI’s trajectory mirrors the rise of Google parent Alphabet, which built its business around indexing the web and now has a foothold in everything from consumer tech devices to health research.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One requires election records to be maintained for 22 months, while the other prohibits procuring, casting or tabulating false, fictitious or fraudulent ballots.
    CBS News, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • One requires election records to be maintained for 22 months, while the other prohibits procuring, casting or tabulating false, fictitious or fraudulent ballots.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Carding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carding. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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