matting

present participle of mat

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for matting
Verb
  • By the mid-1930s, however, Husseini’s influence was dimming.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Viture first made headlines with its Pro XR glasses, offering a 135-inch virtual screen and electrochromic dimming.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In a nearby plot, natural self-thinning over 80 years reduced crowding from 275 to 70 trees per acre.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The military has also been targeting and destroying high-rise buildings surrounding displacement camps, crowding Gaza City’s residents into ever-smaller spaces.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Several bright craters are visible brightening the dark lunar maria that cover swathes of the lunar surface, with impact ejecta streaking outward from some of the younger sites.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Support her post-grad skin with brightening serums, refillable lipsticks, and edge-control that actually holds during interviews and celebrations.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Because entrepreneurs wear many hats, AI is key to lightening their load.
    Anna Horndahl, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The controversial skin-lightening agent is banned in the EU, Australia, and Japan.
    Keyaira Boone, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has caught some flak publicly after shoving an overzealous fan in the stands at their Week 1 game against the Bills.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Vaccaro accused Hill of throwing her to the ground, ripping her hair out, twisting body parts, spitting on her and shoving a marijuana cigarette in her face, according to the TMZ article.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For example, coral reefs are bleaching more often and dying due to ocean warming and acidification, undermining fisheries, marine biodiversity and economic sectors such as tourism.
    Lauren Gifford, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The pic also showed off Jennifer Aniston’s money piece highlights, the face-framing way to give yourself a bit of a blonde glow without bleaching your whole head, sort of the way a ring light illuminates you from the front.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • With some of these storm-squashing factors set to lift in the next few weeks, as well as the usual swivel from storms spawning in the Atlantic to the much-closer Caribbean, some meteorologists worry that the worst is yet to come.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But don’t just stand there and dither until the world gets around to squashing you like a bug.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fabric whitening solutions like bleach or hydrogen peroxide work through a process called oxidization.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That means everything from teeth whitening to fillings and full smile makeovers.
    Yola Robert, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Matting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/matting. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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