concreting

verb

present participle of concrete
1
as in freezing
to become physically firm or solid the mortar slowly concreted in the mold

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2
as in mixing
to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout a choral work that concretes music and dance into a stunning theatrical experience

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concreting
  1. freezing
  2. mixing
  3. hardening
  4. combining
  5. integrating
  6. merging
  7. blending
  8. amalgamating
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  • And when mean girls at school like Nikki Glazer’s Priscilla start freezing them out, Cinderella doesn’t do enough to stand up for them.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Saturday looks chilly with highs in the mid 40s, with breezy conditions keeping feels-like temperatures near freezing all day.
    — Grant Gilmore, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of freezing
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  • Founder Mack Emerman opened Criteria as a one-room studio with his pioneering mixing consoles and soundboard equipment in 1958.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Even as his clobbering drops elicit sympathy for the mixing engineer, their smart deployment captures the catch-and-release catharsis that graduated first-gen Carti scions like Ken Carson and Che to the major leagues.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of mixing
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  • Matt Pender is the vice president of undergrounding and system hardening for PG&E.
    — Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The October run identified 948, more than five times as many, despite three months of additional kernel hardening.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of hardening
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  • Negotiators turn to deal terms Musk raised the possibility of combining Tesla and SpaceX in May, weeks before SpaceX went public.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026
  • That scheme, known as FaceStealer, involves a complicated chain of events combining the hijacking of popular messaging apps and the recording of deepfake videos.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of combining
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  • Hollywood companies are already actively integrating AI into their production pipelines.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • By integrating diagnostic results with clinical history, genomics and other relevant health data, providers will gain a deeper understanding of each patient's unique health profile.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of integrating
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  • The company is hoping to improve its fortunes by merging with the nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Any slower, and its progeny wouldn’t separate enough to prevent them from merging into one again.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of merging
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  • Untitled Top-Down Action Shooter A stylish top-down action shooter blending katana combat and gunplay set on a western frontier.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Materson’s intricate embroideries stray in their subjects from baseball to outer space, with the most striking blending imagination and documentation.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of blending
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  • Moreover, Skida had been amalgamating preseason orders with instant stock in the same retail order flows, creating a host of complicated inventory issues.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • To Coimbra, some key questions involved amalgamating real-life characters into fictionalized ones while still honoring victims and survivors, as well as faithfully recreating the look and feel of the time.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
Definition of amalgamating
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“Concreting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concreting. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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