DIGESTING Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

digesting

verb

present participle of digest

as in classifying

to arrange or assign according to type this volume digests the state's laws regarding drugs and alcohol for easy reference by local authorities

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as in summarizing

to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) I digested the results of my experiments into a few pages

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Recent Examples of digesting In other words, technology has spent nearly four months digesting its prior advance. — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026 Blood tests later pointed to congenital short bowel syndrome, a rare disorder that prevented Obelix from digesting food and led to prolonged hospital care. — Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026 Pairing fast-digesting carbs with protein, healthy fats, or fiber can help slow down digestion and keep your blood sugar steadier. — Brittany Poulson, Verywell Health, 19 Aug. 2026 Your body burns more calories digesting protein than carbs or fats. — Jillian Kubala, HEALTH, 18 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, Warner has spent three years steering free cash flow toward the debt left by the 2022 Discovery merger, and Paramount has been consumed with digesting Skydance. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026 However, not all individuals have trouble digesting sugar alcohols. — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 29 July 2026 Saudi lenders split the difference, with Saudi National Bank ahead of the Tadawul stock exchange, and Alrajhi slightly behind it after digesting higher-than-expected credit costs. — semafor.com, 24 July 2026

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Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations.

— Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of classifying

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Reasoning involves tasks such as summarizing unstructured information, interpreting ambiguous inputs and handling cases that cannot be fully anticipated.

— Giles Whiting, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Generative AI is largely used to assist in common workplace tasks, like summarizing emails or preparing presentations.

— Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of summarizing

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Vance stumped in Florida, putting the Republican Party's highest-ranking officials in areas where GOP candidates once expected to have glide paths to victory but are now facing tougher races.

— MICHELLE L. PRICE, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
But in July, Saudi Arabia attacked the airport in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, to prevent the landing of an Iranian plane carrying high-ranking Houthi officials.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of ranking

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Look east and southeast after dark for the Great Square of Pegasus — four moderately bright stars (Scheat, Alpheratz, Markab and Algenib) outlining an enormous square.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
In 2025, Stephen Blumberg, the director of the CDC division that oversees the survey, published a memo outlining the redesign.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of outlining

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Deablo wears the green dot for the Falcons’ defense, giving him the responsibility of distributing play calls to his teammates.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026
The rollout included distributing the new shoe across 5,000 doors, twice the average for a Nike basketball signature shoe, Hill explained.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of distributing

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Of course, other keyboard types were cheaper to produce, relegating Hall-effect keyboards to an afterthought for decades.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
However, relegating City to the second-tier Championship League would be a punishment that could hurt the rest of the league.

— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of relegating

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If malware steals an active login session, an attacker may be able to access an account without typing your password again.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles A whip-smart Brooklyn girl from a working-class immigrant family, stationed in a Wall Street typing pool, meets a charming banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on the last night of 1937.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

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