cluttering

Definition of clutteringnext
present participle of clutter

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Mitchell gave Miami credit for clogging up the paint and giving him a difficult night.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Inexplicably, the White House seemed caught off guard that Iran, with its leaders seeking sheer survival, would quickly escalate by taking shots at the Middle East’s oil infrastructure and clogging up the region’s key waterway.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Sullivan tried this against Toronto, jumbling the top-six group in the second period.
    Peter Baugh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Trump also was jumbling the timeline of jobs revisions last year, per Politifact.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Americans filling up their tanks are still feeling the pinch.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Long before Marc Jacobs was filling his runways with A-list front rows or Sofia Coppola was making Oscar-winning films, the pair were simply two twenty-something creatives coming up together in a very specific moment of downtown New York.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, compounding pharmacies that sell cheaper knockoffs of these products are disrupting the marketplace.
    CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Since Iran attacked several oil tankers following the start of the war in late February, nearly all shipping traffic through the strait has halted, disrupting global oil markets.
    Victor Ordonez, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • That faced some controversy from the community who argued the city was erasing their history and burdening them with the cost to change stationery.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Polling suggests Californians support taxing corporations more to maintain the state’s social programs without burdening individual residents, who already face costs of living higher than most of the country.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Ken Holland, general manager, B Holland arrived on the scene of a muddling franchise that had lost four straight first-round series to the same opponent.
    Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The new estimate was based on accounting for some of those muddling data points.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 29 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The Lakers announced themselves as a legitimate playoff threat by piling up thrilling, clutch time wins.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Flowers are already piling up outside the Rocha home, where the family has lived for 20 years.
    Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • These chips spend most of their energy shuffling data between a memory unit and a processor.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
  • So what better way to cap all that off than closing out the Oscars — even if the clip played while the audience was shuffling out of the theater and calling their Ubers.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
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“Cluttering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cluttering. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.

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