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 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 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

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Their visit coincides with an event marking one year to the start of the Invictus Games, the biennial sporting competition Harry founded more than a decade ago.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
Four piping plover chicks hatched Monday at Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area, marking the latest milestone in Chicago’s efforts to restore one of the Great Lakes’ most endangered and beloved birds.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026