carding

verb

present participle of card
1
as in filing

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2
as in combing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carding
  1. filing
  2. combing
  3. recording
  4. raking
  5. booking
  6. cataloging
  7. indexing
  8. tabulating
Verb
  • Investigators presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office earlier Tuesday for filing consideration.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • All four of her grandparents were born and raised in Italy; in 2018, the then 62-year-old former magazine editor moved to Perugia, in the central Umbria region, on a temporary visa at the same time as filing a lawsuit for citizenship.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of filing
Verb
  • During pre-deployment cybersecurity testing, three Anthropic models gained unauthorized access to production systems belonging to outside organizations, and the company disclosed it on July 30 after combing through 141,006 evaluation runs.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Sunday morning, federal agents could be seen alongside local and state police combing through the In-N-Out parking lot.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of combing
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  • Judge William Sullivan impounded the call, prohibiting the press from recording or broadcasting the audio.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Palencia would have established himself as one of the sport’s top closers, and the Cubs wouldn’t have needed to set a franchise record with 13 pitchers recording at least one save.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of recording
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  • In the instance above, his raking pass created a goal from what was originally a one-on-four situation in Argentina’s favour.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • In another video posted on Instagram on June 11, Neill was seen raking an olive tree.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
Definition of raking
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  • Many bucket list adventures for 2026 require advance planning, with some trips booking months ahead.
    — Ashley Lynch July 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • Some industry folks are already booking hotels and Airbnbs, while some talent may prefer to stay in Denver, only a half-hour drive away, which hosts fancier hotels like the Four Seasons and a massive international airport hub.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 29 July 2026
Definition of booking
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  • Each year, the department faces lawsuits cataloging records inquiries that the LAPD failed to respond to by the 10-day or 24-day deadline.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • At the time, Cucinelli touted the potential of Callimacus, named after the Greek scholar and poet, praised by the entrepreneur and designer also for his role of cataloguing and safeguarding the vast collection of the great Library of Alexandria.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 27 July 2026
Definition of cataloging
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  • 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
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  • The recount board reconvened Thursday morning, July 9, to begin tabulating runoff Election Day results.
    — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026
  • Legislators passed a law two years ago that set that deadline, but then failed to find a replacement for tabulating votes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 June 2026
Definition of tabulating
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