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parking

verb

present participle of park
as in positioning

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Recent Examples of parking Try to keep parking clear in front of your home so that workers are less likely to park elsewhere. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parking
  1. positioning
  2. locating
  3. planting
  4. stationing
  5. deploying
  6. lodging
  7. camping
  8. situating
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  • Joshua Van is aggressive and should be positioning himself as a striker in this match.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The company is positioning the material for uses spanning fashion and footwear, furniture and interiors, construction and automotive applications.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of positioning
Verb
  • If there was only sea, with water that never stands still, locating anything would be much more complicated—as mariners know full well.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The Dallas Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a 61-year-old man with autism, who's been missing for nearly two weeks.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of locating
Verb
  • The Best Plants to Buy Bare-Root Some of the best options for planting bare-root are those that establish well from dormant roots.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The decimation of our native ash trees because of a tiny insect proves that everyone planting the same type of tree, yard after yard, is not a smart idea.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of planting
Verb
  • With Uranus stationing retrograde in your sign, disruption at work, perhaps from earlier in the year, could resurface… except this time, you’re being called to deal with it once and for all.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Compositionally, the girl refuses to assume the traditional blocking of a model at the center of the picture, stationing herself instead to the right and leaving an empty area of floor to occupy the center of the canvas.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of stationing
Verb
  • Toyota has already begun deploying some of its ELEY humanoid robots across assembly lines to learn from human workers.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Israeli fusion company nT-Tao and US nuclear developer Orion Nuclear Energy Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore deploying nT-Tao’s compact fusion power system at sites across the United States.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of deploying
Verb
  • Fall weekends can get busy, especially during the Woolly Worm Festival, so book lodging early.
    — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Consumers saw higher prices in August month-over-month for categories such as communication, lodging away from home, airline fares, education, and used cars and trucks.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of lodging
Verb
  • For anyone hiking or camping far from a trailhead, that means treating a possible bat exposure as a reason to head out, not to wait and see.
    — The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • On their off days, players roam the ballpark, interacting with fans and camping out in the bleachers to watch their friends and competitors play.
    — Emily Ohman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of camping
Verb
  • The Sun is in Virgo until September 22, situating you in your annual season of renewal and personal vitality.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The report proposed situating it at the western end of the Mall, near the Potomac River.
    — Jennifer Tucker, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of situating

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“Parking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parking. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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