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noun

Definition of coating

as in backing

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verb

present participle of coat

as in covering

to form a layer over thicken the sauce until it will coat the back of a spoon

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Recent Examples of coating

Noun

But after the site was restored, the water was plagued by an algae bloom for more than a week, and pieces of the new coating have appeared to be peeling off the bottom. — Steve Peoples, Fortune, 5 July 2026 Sprinkle a coating of baking soda all over the floor of your porch. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 July 2026

Verb

Your glass tabletops, windows, and mirrors may look worse after cleaning them thanks to the dull film coating their surface. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 June 2026 Thick colonies are already coating boats, piers and pipelines. — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for coating

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Noun

It’s made of a cotton-linen blend that lets the sunlight in, and its 100-percent-cotton backing layer is just thick enough to keep the summer heat out of the room without darkening it.

— Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 11 July 2026
This backing also allows for technology transfers and technology adoption beyond consumer products.

— Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of backing

Verb

Weedy vines are the scourge of many shrub plantings, covering them with unwanted foliage that causes their decline.

— Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2026
In our newsroom this summer, 14 are engaged in a professional educational Sacbee course in journalism, working alongside our staff covering local news politics and sports; capturing visuals; and learning the ropes of audience engagement.

— Scott Lebar, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2026

Definition of covering

Noun

Blue Square may be the most public-facing of these monitoring efforts, and, with Kraft’s money and platform, the best known, thanks to its Super Bowl ads and its association with America’s most popular sport.

— Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2026
The problem was our infrastructure is entirely internal-facing, and building an external environment from scratch takes time, money and people.

— Rizwan Jan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of facing

Verb

The offer sheet comes 14 years after the Flyers, under previous management, offer-sheeting Nashville defenseman Shea Weber for $110 million over 14 years, which the Predators matched.

— Dan Gelston, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Both Bestor and architect Tim Barber, who counts Matt Duffer and Ramin Djawadi as clients, employ Densdeck Roof Boards and Densinglas sheeting, a fiberglass-matt gypsum panel considered sustainable because of its durability and recycled content, in their work.

— Abigail Stone, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of sheeting

Noun

Twenty years later, that experiment is a global brand doing hundreds of millions in revenue, and the wrapper still looks unevenly broken on purpose, a small reminder of the inequality the whole company exists to fix.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
That is why registered dietitians often single RXBAR out when clients ask what to actually look for on a protein bar wrapper.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 6, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026

Definition of wrapper

Verb

Flowers completely cover the needle-like foliage, carpeting the garden in vibrant pink, purple, and violet-red blooms.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
During the rainy winter and early spring months, otherworldly photos of the park make the rounds online, showing brilliant yellow, pink, and purple blooms carpeting an otherwise lunar landscape.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026

Definition of carpeting

Noun

Herro was part of the trade package that the Heat sent to the Bucks to acquire Antetokounmpo and veteran forward Bobby Portis.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026
While automotive and marine oils may use similar base stocks, the key difference is in the additive packages.

— John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026

Definition of package

Verb

With one acrobatic slam after another, Yaxel Lendeborg cut through the sleepy atmosphere blanketing the pregame layup lines, injecting some energy into a crowd that was waiting to watch the team’s first summer league game at Chase Center on Friday.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Also, science reporter Denise Chow talks about the extreme heat blanketing the nation just in time for its 250th birthday.

— Michelle Garcia, NBC news, 30 June 2026

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