as in stationing
to place in a particular position
The commander deployed additional troops to the region this morning.
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Recent Examples of deploying
But deploying a thousand agents that can’t be coordinated, governed, or audited is the same thinking that gave enterprises a thousand disconnected point solutions a decade ago, and produced the same result.
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Ganesh Padmanabhan, Fortune, 19 June 2026
While some videos include a soundtrack of small arms fire, there is little sign of the mobile fire groups of volunteers armed with anti-aircraft machine guns which Russia is now deploying at scale.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026
The fact is that by deploying nuclear weapons on its territory, Finland is beginning to threaten us.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
Video from Mendias showed officers pouring out of the back of an armored police vehicle and police deploying robots into the area.
—Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The task force is working with local law enforcement and deploying personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), as well as the FBI's Counterterrorism Division.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Multiple agencies led by the county’s fire-rescue and Florida Forest Service had been mobilizing and deploying firefighters and equipment from around the state for days.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
Although he was acquitted of the six counts against him, including insubordination, the court-martial prevented him from deploying to fight in Europe with his battalion.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
Ganesh Padmanabhan, Fortune, 19 June 2026
While some videos include a soundtrack of small arms fire, there is little sign of the mobile fire groups of volunteers armed with anti-aircraft machine guns which Russia is now deploying at scale.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026
The fact is that by deploying nuclear weapons on its territory, Finland is beginning to threaten us.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
Video from Mendias showed officers pouring out of the back of an armored police vehicle and police deploying robots into the area.
—Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The task force is working with local law enforcement and deploying personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), as well as the FBI's Counterterrorism Division.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Multiple agencies led by the county’s fire-rescue and Florida Forest Service had been mobilizing and deploying firefighters and equipment from around the state for days.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
Although he was acquitted of the six counts against him, including insubordination, the court-martial prevented him from deploying to fight in Europe with his battalion.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deploying
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However, with Mercury stationing retrograde in Cancer on June 29 — the ruler of this Mars in Gemini transit — old feelings, conversations and even ex-lovers could circle back around for some unfinished business.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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The month closes on June 29 with a full moon in Capricorn alongside Mercury stationing retrograde, putting a warm spotlight on your inner circle and local community.—
Kirah Tabourn,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 May 2026
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Nadella is talking his own book — Microsoft has no frontier model of its own and, in the middle of a messy uncoupling from OpenAI, is positioning itself as the enabler of the learning loop rather than the model underneath.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
16 June 2026
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The Historyverse project will be produced through Galleri5, Collective Studios’s in-house AI storytelling studio, with the company positioning emerging technology as a complement to the source material’s narrative and philosophical core rather than a departure from it.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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New London police shared information about the vehicle to other area departments in the hopes of locating it, police said.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
13 June 2026
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Los Angeles Police Department detectives are seeking help locating a hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian in North Hollywood on Thursday.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
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Clearly, whoever had previously owned the place wasn't just planting crops.—
Jacqueline Goldblatt,
PC Magazine,
13 June 2026
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Plant Varieties With Different Bloom Times There are early, mid-season, and late peony cultivars, and planting some of each type stretches the peony bloom up to several weeks.—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
12 June 2026
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“Deploying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deploying. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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