as in decomposing
to go through decomposition
plants molding in the abandoned garden
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Recent Examples of molding
To spotlight the names molding the business landscape, TIME and Statista ranked 350 VC firms at the forefront of catalyzing innovation, supporting emerging startups, and driving the next generation of economic growth.
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Charlotte Hu, Time, 19 Aug. 2025
This is the dynamic that many fintechs are quietly optimizing for—not informing our behavior but, rather, molding it.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Osbourne was one of the most iconic figures in rock, molding the sound and perception of heavy metal with his one-of-a-kind voice and shocking antics.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
The company makes extrusion blowing molding machines used in the production of plastic containers for beauty products and other uses.
—Carol Cain, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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Charlotte Hu, Time, 19 Aug. 2025
This is the dynamic that many fintechs are quietly optimizing for—not informing our behavior but, rather, molding it.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Osbourne was one of the most iconic figures in rock, molding the sound and perception of heavy metal with his one-of-a-kind voice and shocking antics.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
The company makes extrusion blowing molding machines used in the production of plastic containers for beauty products and other uses.
—Carol Cain, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molding
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This prompts the straw to start decomposing, ensuring the bales won’t overheat and burn your plants later.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Oct. 2025
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Gates visited Koie’s mountainside studio in Gifu with Koie’s daughter, who shared that her father would be okay with the studio decomposing into the mountain.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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Garbage, rotting food with bugs and clothing stacked close to the ceiling were also seen in most areas of the house.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Oct. 2025
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Kirk Cousins is rotting on the Falcons’ bench.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The electrical grid is disintegrating, with hours-long blackouts common across the island.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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It’s been ripe for restoration since the 1970s and has sat, empty and disintegrating, for most of that time.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
24 Sep. 2025
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For another, there’s the DESI data, our best large-scale structure data at present, which seems to slightly favor the presence of evolving (and, in particular, decaying or weakening) dark energy.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Oct. 2025
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As a result, when animals died and sank, their soft tissues were occasionally preserved instead of being consumed or decaying.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Molding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molding. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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