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 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 The bill marks a win for licensed cannabis businesses who say unregulated hemp shops are undercutting their sales while facing none of the same security restrictions, such as testing and labeling the content of their products. —

Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026 After the war, his goalscoring statistics were deleted and his achievements were discredited, with the Polish press labelling him as mentally unstable and an alcoholic. —

Tim Spiers, New York Times, 1 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 Rosenbaum's complicated and deeply layered portrayal of Lex continues to receive praise to this very day, with even DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn labelling him the best Lex of all time. —

Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 13 May 2026 Hafley praised Johnson, labeling the draft’s 27th pick, a player the Dolphins traded up for, as his favorite cornerback in the draft because of his combination of size, speed, athleticism and footwork. —

Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026

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While Carver was born on the farm near the end of the Civil War, visitors today can see a reconstructed cabin marking his birthplace.

— USA TODAY Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
City leaders in San Francisco's Chinatown on Tuesday broke ground on the first major renovation of Portsmouth Square in nearly 50 years, marking a major overhaul of one of the city's most historic public spaces.

— Maddie White, CBS News, 10 June 2026