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groupings

noun

plural of grouping
1
as in clusters
a number of things considered as a unit the standard grouping for an average living room: sofa, matching wing chairs, and the inevitable coffee table

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2
as in groups
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit the next grouping of tourists can start the house tour as soon as the last bunch leaves

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Recent Examples of groupings Lemon mostly worked in personnel groupings with Smith and Wicks. — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The Phase One regional groupings for the Leagues Cup were as follows. — Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026 Remove any large groupings of plants like saw palmetto, yaupon, wax myrtle and gallberry, especially if the plants are close to the home, adjacent decks or porches or under eaves or overhangs. — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Other middle powers such as Brazil, India, Iran, and Turkey are creating and joining a plethora of similar groupings, balancing and hedging between the great powers. — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 So on Friday, at UCLA’s second fall practice, the Bruins shifted around personnel and paired various offensive groupings. — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 8 Aug. 2026 Scale and proportion also play a major role in helping groupings look balanced. — Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2026 When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings. — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026 These groupings leave out some players under contract in Sean Kuraly, Alex Steeves and Mikey Eyssimont. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for groupings
  1. clusters
  2. groups
  3. batches
  4. bands
  5. collections
  6. arrays
  7. assemblages
  8. constellations
Noun
  • Wire cables, arranged in clusters across a gallery floor, conjure tufts of grass.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Cut the clusters in half on an angle and add to shallot mixture (don’t stir).
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of clusters
Noun
  • Human rights groups and advocates have denounced mass and arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearances in the Central American nation's prison system.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The groups also argue such a lack of transparency could entrench the most powerful labs and models with open-source companies in the dark, and that Congress should be looped in as well.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of groups
Noun
  • Working in 7 more batches, repeat process with remaining oil, batter, and blueberries, adjusting heat as needed to keep pancakes from absorbing too much oil or burning.
    — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Working in batches to avoid overcrowding, add the chicken thighs, skin side down, and cook the chicken until golden brown and crispy, 4 to 6 minutes on each side.
    — Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of batches
Noun
  • Rowland, as politically astute as any recording artist living in the United Kingdom, went on to form new bands, release solo music and drop albums as Dexys.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Clancy was accused of killing her three children – 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan – with exercise bands at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in 2023.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of bands
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  • The billionaire chairman and CEO of WorldQuant has been a pioneer in applying AI and other technologies to vast collections of data, looking to build predictive models from historical information.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • For the 125th, Bergdorf’s has partnered with more than 100 brands on exclusive collections and special products spanning more than 850 styles.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of collections
Noun
  • In the foreground, the telescope's payload adapter can be seen, while just behind, the orbital observatory floats into the blackness of space with its solar arrays still folded for launch.
    — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The lightweight profile allows energy generation on load-sensitive surfaces that cannot carry standard solar arrays.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrays
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  • Beginning in 1989, oil and acrylic paints gave way to olive oil, henna, tea, spices, and coffee, while animal glue, mud, and leather also shaped the group’s posters, paintings, and mixed-media assemblages.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Often these assemblages of items are tied together in a bundle or bag and may be referred to as hands, mojos, or gris-gris.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of assemblages
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  • The company is developing the more powerful rocket to support large commercial and national security satellite constellations, of which there soon may be a high demand.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The film’s opening scene has her wading naked in Hampstead Ponds at night, looking up at the blinking stars and naming the constellations to herself, then closing her eyes as if to let the galaxies above wash over her.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of constellations

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“Groupings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groupings. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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