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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
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
China is always a flip of the coin in terms of over- or under-indexing.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 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.
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Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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Noun
There’s a risk that boards, and the world in general, are over-indexing on the CEO as the one who is going to make all this happen.
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Diane Brady,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
China is always a flip of the coin in terms of over- or under-indexing.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 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.
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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.
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Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indexing
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As in previous years, the 15 rating was the most frequently issued classification and applied to 45% of cinema submissions, closely followed by 12A at 35%.
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The gap at the top keeps widening on hard benchmarks, but for the work that makes up most of what gets sent to an API (classification, summarization, extraction, formatting, lookup and simple generation), a smaller and cheaper model produces output that is functionally identical.
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The shortstop had just 14 RBIs in his previous 48 games entering Tuesday.
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After making the playoffs, the Sabres are entering a window of contention, so that pick could be in play as part of another deal.
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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.
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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.
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The film even won the main award, with the KVIFF website listing it as sharing the Grand Prix with True Friends, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov from the USSR.
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The strain already appears to be spreading to other hormone replacement therapies, with ASHP recently listing several estradiol creams and progesterone pills, which are given alongside estrogen, as being in shortage.
Noun
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An operations manager pilots expense categorization.
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Genre categorization is an art, not a science.
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Herrera’s book justifiably treated the paintings as essentially autobiographical, recording a life of trials and tribulations.
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As a result, recording Clovis was an intensely personal affair for both Shooter Jennings, and one of Waylon’s biggest present-day admirers, Crockett.
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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.
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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.
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With ballots set to be printed this week, the issue was appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court on an expedited basis, with both sides filing court papers over the weekend.
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That means filing Form I-539 to change status to B-2 visitor before the grace period expires.
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“Indexing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indexing. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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