Thesaurus results for LABELLING

labeling

verb

variants or labelling

present participle of label

as in marking

to attach an identifying slip to he labeled all of the poisonous materials with the familiar skull and crossbones

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as in naming

to give a name to the dictionary labels some words "archaic"

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Recent Examples of labeling Reade said that apparel and footwear brands also should improve transparency for consumers by adequately labeling any product that still contains the chemicals, even in trace amounts, as well as noting if items are PFAS-free. —

Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 24 June 2026 Thomas Muller, who scored 10 goals in 19 World Cup matches for Germany, uploaded a picture on Instagram of him playing for Vancouver Whitecaps against Messi in MLS, also labelling him the greatest of all time. —

Jay Harris, New York Times, 17 June 2026 Alas, Verbinski is no purist, and doesn’t see the issue of labelling AI usage as purely black and white. —

Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 13 June 2026 Commissioner John Wasik, who voted against the resolution, said labeling the project as de minimis is insufficient considering the environmental issues surrounding the Waukegan area. —

Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026 The Pentagon responded on Monday by removing the Christian label from 20 other traditions, including Catholic, Lutheran and Pentecostal, and stayed away from labeling Latter-day Saints as Christian. —

ABC News, 10 June 2026 Make labeling your emotions a habit Sauer-Zavala tells beginners to try labeling their big emotions just once a day for a week, rather than treating it as a lifelong project. —

Angela Haupt, Time, 10 June 2026 Merely by labelling the item as AI, a booming amount of vitriol was released. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 While other operators submitted detailed incident summaries to the US regulator, Tesla blacked out every narrative entirely, labeling them as confidential business information. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Nazi Germany invasion into the Soviet Union in World War II on the Remembrance and Sorrow Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow on June 22, 2026.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Last month, Deep Fission announced the pricing of its public offering of common stock, marking its debut in the public markets and providing capital to advance its underground nuclear technology.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026