carding

present participle of card

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for carding
Verb
  • Patterson, then a 20-year department veteran, entered settlement talks with the city several years after filing the lawsuit.
    Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Others advised legal action, beginning with filing a police report.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By Wednesday morning, law enforcement officers and workers in protective clothing were combing the area in search of the missing animals.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Both directors have observed stan-worthy deep dives on social media, especially in TikTok videos, where fans are combing through moments of foreshadowing or character details that the filmmakers weaved into the story with love.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • What if your fall clean-up could involve less raking and more pumpkin spice lattes?
    Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2025
  • For larger areas or quicker cleanup, a leaf blower can be a helpful alternative to raking.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • He was also charged with recording any words churchgoers spoke out of turn, when they were supposed to be attending to the service.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Yesavage — who started his professional baseball career on the Blue Jays Single-A minor league affiliate in Florida six months ago — threw a record 12 strikeouts in seven innings, recording no walks, three hits and one run.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There is something about standard operation procedures that can be applied [to other side hustles], like finding and booking talent, and keeping their names with a description of their strengths in a database for the future.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Faye Tillery, founder of the HiSo Collective, a luxury travel concierge and global relocation company, encourages her clients to go straight to the source when booking.
    Essence, Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By the late 1870s, he was asked to take part in the gargantuan task of evaluating and cataloguing the results of the five-year Challenger expedition—an ambitious British global research voyage, the first ever dedicated purely to science.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • This means cataloging existing data stores, understanding where sensitive information resides, and recognizing which systems lack adequate monitoring.
    Ethan Stone, IndyStar, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • So, the vertices that are indexing positions of my code word.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • One hundred years ago, IBM got its start in Spain setting up tabulating machines for the country’s national telephone and telegraph company—peak technology at the time that was key in connecting people and enterprises.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Carrying out the 2026 midterm election without mail-in absentee voting or vote tabulating machines would likely extend the time needed to count votes by weeks, said Don Millis, a Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Carding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carding. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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