laying by

present participle of lay by
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for laying by
Verb
  • However, salary-dumping Drummond wouldn't come without risk for the Sixers.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In an interview, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava noted that dumping dogs is a top complaint in the agricultural area of South Miami-Dade known as Redland.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By embedding living bacteria into the world’s most common building material, the team has created a supercapacitor capable of storing electricity.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The integration of pg_vector extension enables storing and querying millions of vectors with millisecond response times, supporting real-time AI applications that process unstructured data alongside traditional business records.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Glabe’s sales follow those of board member Eric Swider, who has also sharply reduced his holdings, unloading around 165,000 shares since November.
    Zach Everson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Dockworkers were unloading shipping containers from another vessel that was berthed at Pier G before the incident, with truck drivers moving containers to and from the terminal.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The individual has been cooperating with officials and initially showed the FBI text messages from Robinson about stashing a gun linked to the Kirk shooting.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But stashing items along the trail is problematic.
    Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The reason for the debris is not that people are discarding the cookies but, rather, the way they’re sold.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These layers are then reorganized into tensor networks, which retain the most important patterns in the layer’s weights while discarding redundant information that isn’t contributing much to overall performance.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With more and more people ditching larger sizes, the store has had to be reset multiple times.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Give and Take All the new iPhones use eSIM worldwide, ditching physical SIM cards for good.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Despite spending the whole three-hour awards show telling people that their overlong speeches were losing the Boys & Girls Club of America money, the bit was a ruse.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Resilience, in the simplest terms, is the ability to recover from challenges, adapt to change and keep moving forward without losing your core sense of purpose.
    Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • From the outside, that must sound ludicrously harsh, even if Leverkusen were winless across those matches, losing to Hoffenheim and throwing away a 3-1 lead (with a man advantage) to draw 3-3 in Bremen on Saturday afternoon.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Starting over does not mean throwing away the earlier chapters.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Laying by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laying%20by. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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