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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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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
When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
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Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2026
To prevent mealybug infestations, allow airflow between plant groupings and keep infected plants away from healthy ones.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026
That spirit is exemplified by Ford, a gregarious hostess who moves through the various groupings of women in a diaphanous full-length blue dress, introducing Godfred to a group of attendees and hugging both first-timers and her OGs enthusiastically.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 May 2026
Her best advice is to look for larger groupings that create instant collections.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
Twenty of the panels were accumulators with the same design, so the students started with these, then worked through smaller groupings of panels.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2026
To prevent mealybug infestations, allow airflow between plant groupings and keep infected plants away from healthy ones.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026
That spirit is exemplified by Ford, a gregarious hostess who moves through the various groupings of women in a diaphanous full-length blue dress, introducing Godfred to a group of attendees and hugging both first-timers and her OGs enthusiastically.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 May 2026
Her best advice is to look for larger groupings that create instant collections.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
Twenty of the panels were accumulators with the same design, so the students started with these, then worked through smaller groupings of panels.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for groupings
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The company has benefited from the buildout of AI infrastructure as data centers demand greater networking capacity to move information between increasingly powerful computing clusters.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
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The numerous bright red dots strewn around M88’s spiral arms are old stars, while the pink and blue represent star clusters and dust clouds.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 May 2026
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But many critics — including transit, affordable housing, environmental justice and clean water groups — said this amounts to a dismantling of the program.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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The Kansas Coalition for Common Sense, which has supported the petition effort alongside the groups Prairie Progress Civic Action and Leading Kansas, slammed the response.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
29 May 2026
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The campaign says entire batches of signatures collected by Bronske were rejected after three towns contacted the Secretary of State’s Office with concerns of forgery.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
31 May 2026
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Starlink has a significant head start in the broadband megaconstellation race, with SpaceX launching fresh batches weekly or even more frequently on its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket while also preparing to launch bigger payloads on the Starship rocket, which is currently under development.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
29 May 2026
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Multiple copies of Howl, Kaddish, and assembled collections of complete verse lined (and still line) my bookshelves.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Such work has earned Sibony a berth in in institutional collections worldwide, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
3 June 2026
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And the zebra shade's alternating sheer and opaque bands offer precise control over light and privacy.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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Corgan was still dreaming of monster riffs in the vein of Jimmy Page balanced out with the goth sensibilities of bands like the Cure.—
David Harris,
SPIN,
2 June 2026
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These features facilitate a more flexible cooking that works better for arrays of ingredients.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Because orbital data centers, in theory, require huge amounts of infrastructure like giant solar arrays, to be launched into space, the V3’s upgraded carrying capacity is essential.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
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The conjecture says that even within enormous, scattered and chaotic assemblages of points existing across innumerable dimensions, simple, orderly shapes will inevitably crop up.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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That leads to longer build times as those complicated parts are sewn together with assemblages of other, smaller parts, before being shipped across the ocean, and eventually trucked to the final construction site.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
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Satellites for one of these large-scale Internet constellations rode to space aboard the Long March 12B, which released a batch of Qianfan broadband spacecraft into low-Earth orbit.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company develops standardized satellite buses designed for large low-Earth-orbit constellations.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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“Groupings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groupings. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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