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to put (someone or something) on a list
indexed all the books in the library by category
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Recent Examples of indexing
Jason Phillips, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Adding the inflation indexing of the basis would mean accommodating inflation twice.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
OpenAI’s trajectory mirrors the rise of Google parent Alphabet, which built its business around indexing the web and now has a foothold in everything from consumer tech devices to health research.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
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Noun
During this time, teams check for indexing or crawl anomalies, examine sudden traffic shifts by landing page, and review performance across query groups.
—Jason Phillips, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Adding the inflation indexing of the basis would mean accommodating inflation twice.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
OpenAI’s trajectory mirrors the rise of Google parent Alphabet, which built its business around indexing the web and now has a foothold in everything from consumer tech devices to health research.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indexing
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Rather than a sweeping blockade, the campaign should rely on port-state control, sanctions enforcement, customs law, insurance and classification requirements, environmental protection, safety inspections, and flag-state coordination.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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County officials noted that while most of those positions were occupied when the reductions were identified, vacancies existed elsewhere in the department within the same classifications.—
Reeti Malhotra,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
Verb
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In 2025, Google followed suit, entering into an agreement with Kairos Power and the TVA for a new nuclear plant.—
Joseph Wilkins,
CNBC,
3 June 2026
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Industrial additive manufacturing is entering the commercial nuclear power sector through a new production agreement between two Midwestern companies.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 June 2026
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Per ARTnews, Spain’s Court of Auditors has been critical of the Reina Sofía’s cataloguing methods for years, and government officials are now asking for a physical accounting of the over 25,000 artworks in the museum; as well as comprehensive financial valuations.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
22 May 2026
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Among them is the demanding task of turning a pile of artifacts into a museum collection, which includes cataloging, researching, describing and photographing.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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Former Charlotte Hornets star Nicolas Batum is selling his longtime Lake Norman mansion for $6 million, the property’s listing agent with Premier Sotheby’s International Realty said Friday.—
Joe Marusak
May 30,
Charlotte Observer,
30 May 2026
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Write an accurate job listing 2.—
Audrey Payne,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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Free plans often limit automatic categorization, customization options and available insights.—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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And its end use, namely packaging, is in some ways a more obvious categorization.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
28 May 2026
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The machine’s repertoire included answers to 12 riddles, passages from books, and laughing, crying and kissing sounds, as well as arias sung in both male and female voices—all feats that Edison’s phonograph would one day be able to accomplish by recording and playing back the human voice.—
Ron Cowen,
Scientific American,
3 June 2026
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Michiganders are facing an affordability crisis, and our utility companies are recording record profits.—
DeJanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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The codification of what became soccer Public school graduates took their versions of the game with them to the next level.—
Thomas Adam,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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Three Americans died in the 1996 incident that led to sanctions and the codification of the trade embargo on Cuba that remains in place today.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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Investigators have not yet revealed a motive for the shooting and said that a case will be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for filing consideration.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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His victory over Blue Cross/Blue Shield allowed 30 other women to be treated with the procedure without filing suit.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2026
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“Indexing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indexing. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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