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 In public health, the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stressed the need for the continent to manufacture its own vaccines, and to do so in regional groupings. — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026 My groupings range from sterling silver flatware to matchbooks, but my most prized grouping is my trove of fine art. — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2026 Only 28 of the 105 political parties and groupings approved by the Provisional Electoral Council to contest elections for president, Parliament and local posts, had reached the threshold of registering 30,000 members. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026 Sadiq, with his versatility, is the key that unlocks those groupings. — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Many of these countries were British colonies, some of which were also once part of British West Africa or British East Africa administrative groupings. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Sep. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for groupings
  1. clusters
  2. groups
  3. batches
  4. bands
  5. collections
  6. arrays
  7. assemblages
  8. constellations
Noun
  • The trajectories separated into four distinct clusters corresponding to rest, meditation, music, and the movie.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The company also has an edge on its peers because of its ability to improve the performance of GPU clusters, which should give its stock an additional boost, per Mohan.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of clusters
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  • Nine of the 10 largest individual and family donors in CNBC’s overall top 20 groups are Republican-aligned, accounting for 86 cents of every dollar contributed by the top 10, according to CNBC’s analysis of FEC records.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Though professional society guidelines recommended against performing this biopsy on women 70 or older with early-stage cancer, other groups had reported that it was still being done.
    — Allessandra DiCorato, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of groups
Noun
  • Food safety officials swept into the kitchen, scrutinizing the tandoori ovens and expiration dates on batches of butter.
    — Zishaan a Latif, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Zhou timed what happened between batches, and found that, during a six-hour changeover, only one hour was useful.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of batches
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  • Dennis and Rosa encounter all sorts of people, from feuding Take That tribute bands to Irish bachelorettes, comedians and bingo enthusiasts.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Isaias’ bands could drench Florida’s Panhandle and Big Bend with as much as 15 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.
    — Robin Webb, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of bands
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  • Some 37% of Gen Z women kept their collections on view only within their own households, compared with 16% of Gen Z men.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The series is based upon Helene Tursten’s short story collections An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of collections
Noun
  • For one, operating data centers in space would require massive solar arrays to capture the sun’s rays and turn it into energy.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Honeybee Robotics is one of the companies that have been working under NASA's Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) project, which has been developing solar arrays to create the necessary power for a sustained presence on the moon in the future.
    — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 4 Oct. 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 Beehive is one of the brightest and finest open star clusters, located in the middle of the faintest of the zodiacal constellations, Cancer the Crab.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 Oct. 2026
  • This momentum is anchored in the rapid growth of the broader satellite communications market, where commercial operators are moving aggressively beyond legacy geostationary satellites toward multi-orbit, highly proliferated constellations.
    — Rohit Jha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of constellations

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“Groupings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groupings. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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