CARDING Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

carding

verb

present participle of card

as in filing

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deleting

as in combing

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Verb

And the number moved enough that the Census Bureau took the unusual step of declaring the old and new figures incomparable, creating a new time series from December 4, 2025, and filing the earlier data under historical.

— Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
That has meant skaters such as Valieva have been considered eligible briefly after filing the paperwork for neutral status, only to have that status revoked soon after.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of filing

Verb

In time, national security institutions were routinely vacuuming up ordinary police information, and local law enforcement officers were combing through federal intelligence.

— Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Comella started combing the pile, picking up light debris, trying to get surface victims.

— Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of combing

Verb

Northern Illinois drops after not recording a first down at Iowa until late in the third quarter against the Hawkeyes' third-string defense.

— Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Reliever Seth Halvorsen gave up three hits without recording an out in the ninth, but the Dodgers had built up enough of a lead to weather a Washington (67-76) comeback attempt.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of recording

Verb

Verbruggen illustrated his strengths in possession in the early stages against Leeds with a raking pass that released Maxim De Cuyper one-v-one against Jayden Bogle.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The tines are made of premium, durable plastic, and the entire head is 17 inches wide to make quick work of raking.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of raking

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So that was the craziest 24 hours of my life, booking this role, going to this premiere of a movie that people were so excited about, having James Gunn over at the DC side.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
What’s changed in the streaming era and post-Covid are booking patterns.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of booking

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Prosecuting just one case can mean accessing, reviewing, cataloging and storing thousands of digital files.

— Susan Sarkauskas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
Morris’s book focuses only on the representation of real animals; cataloguing mythic and hybrid creatures would take another volume entirely.

— Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of cataloging

Verb

The Social Security Administration calculates your retirement benefits by reviewing your lifetime earnings and indexing your highest 35 years of earnings to wage growth to produce an Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME).

— Brian Sloan, CNBC, 21 July 2026
The 2015 staff report recommended indexing the thresholds to inflation on a go-forward basis.

— Matt Stephens, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of indexing

Verb

What turned out to be a razor-thin contest wasn’t called by the Associated Press until early Wednesday morning, after a delay in tabulating votes from Milwaukee.

— Chantelle Lee, Time, 12 Aug. 2026
The recount board reconvened Thursday morning, July 9, to begin tabulating runoff Election Day results.

— Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026

Definition of tabulating

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