mapping

Definition of mappingnext
present participle of map

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Verb
  • The district recently approved new course materials for some high school math courses, and is planning for a middle school Spanish language arts pilot and new advanced high school welding class to start next school year.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • JPMorgan Chase is planning to consolidate workspace for existing Charlotte workers and account for more hiring by moving into a SouthPark office that has room for over 1,000 workers, further expanding its push into the hometown territory of rival banks.
    Chase Jordan April 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In early March, engineers from the Armaments Center began designing, explosive pressing, housing manufacturing and integrating the warhead to be used on a low-cost and expendable one-way attack drone.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
  • In a way, Tim Cook's superpower was always taking the innovation in Cupertino and orchestrating the external forces to bring it to life, through perfecting the supply chain and designing supplier relationships as chief operating officer, and eventually practicing international diplomacy as CEO.
    Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The First Gulf War really had a catalytic effect in shaping how China thought about its own military modernization program.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Variety’s Entertainment Marketing Summit brought together leaders shaping the future of entertainment marketing and spotlighted the growth of the creator economy, strategies for how brands can reconnect with audiences and more.
    Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • No, the blame falls on moderate Democrats, who knew darn well what progressives and progressivism represented but did nothing to prevent the radical left from engineering a takeover of their party.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This lands inside a broader legitimacy collapse that elite universities have spent years engineering for themselves.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Mapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mapping. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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