as in decomposing
to go through decomposition
plants molding in the abandoned garden
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Recent Examples of molding
Algorithms prune and shear outliers, molding our tastes into perfectly symmetrical vectors filled with the same familiar superstars — Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Drake (still).
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Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Think layers of molding on the mantel, picture molding on the chimney, decorative tile, maybe even some corbels.
—Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
As Pate was building his drama, The Runarounds were molding themselves into young adults — and a real band.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Behold the wholesome, impressionable child star from Pennsylvania who went from placing third in The Next Miley Cyrus Project in 2008 to molding art and body to meet an oversexed societal mandate.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
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Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Think layers of molding on the mantel, picture molding on the chimney, decorative tile, maybe even some corbels.
—Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
As Pate was building his drama, The Runarounds were molding themselves into young adults — and a real band.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Behold the wholesome, impressionable child star from Pennsylvania who went from placing third in The Next Miley Cyrus Project in 2008 to molding art and body to meet an oversexed societal mandate.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molding
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Bugs and scientists have long been oddball allies in the effort to understand decomposing bodies, but there's a catch.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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The round spots seemed neat compared with their surroundings, clear of the layers of decomposing plankton spotted elsewhere on the seafloor.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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By the time it was all set up, the whole cold, disintegrating place was threaded with lights and lines, flickering everywhere, black and red, the sheer quantity somehow terrifying and embracing at once.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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This difference sounds small, but preventing a few tenths of a degree of warming could keep polar ice caps from completely disintegrating, coral reefs from collapsing and other tipping points from triggering.—
Syris Valentine,
Scientific American,
16 Oct. 2025
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The research team revealed that plastination is a new method for managing moisture in wood by replacing water in the cellular structure with a silicone compound to create a durable, hydrophobic barrier that resists swelling, rotting, and cracking.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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The rotting corpse flower’s putrid stench cast a spell Thursday across Roseville High School’s campus.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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The decaying Avenger is one of a dozen wrecks in three very different underwater environments — the western Pacific Ocean off Saipan, Lake Huron, shared by Michigan and Ontario, and the Italian Mediterranean — investigated as part of the ambitious pilot project involving eDNA.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The place is decaying and strict, but Luna refuses to give in to its rules.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Molding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molding. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.
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