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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  • As commercial orbital platforms emerge, Outpost is positioning sample and product return as a core service for companies that need both access to space and analysis on Earth.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Less known is a separate but related oceanographic feature that is quickly positioning itself as one of — if not the — major disruptive weather events of the season.
    — Rafi Schwartz, TheWeek, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of positioning
Verb
  • This component's other skills include locating large files and folders, locating empty files, irretrievably erasing drives (other than the boot drive), uninstalling apps, and defragmenting disks and the registry.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Northeastern University opened a graduate program in the same neighborhood, Wynwood, where Carnegie Mellon is locating.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of locating
Verb
  • Ronald Watts, accused of planting evidence to frame hundreds of men.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have sent fertilizer costs soaring, just as farmers pay higher interest rates on the loans needed to get from planting to harvest season.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of planting
Verb
  • The law prohibits federal officials from stationing troops or armed personnel at polling places, except when necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.
    — TIME Staff, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Storing explosive ammunition and stationing snipers in the middle of a busy traffic circle close to other, more secure military locations, including the Pentagon, strikes many observers as simultaneously dangerous and ridiculous.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of stationing
Verb
  • This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces hit data processing centers in Kyiv that Moscow says are used by the Ukrainian military, which is increasingly deploying artificial intelligence on the battlefield.
    — Susie Blann, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of deploying
Verb
  • That officer then shot into Perez's vehicle, lodging a bullet in his back, officials say.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • That officer then shot into Perez’s vehicle, lodging a bullet in his back, officials say.
    — Ryan J. Foley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of lodging
Verb
  • The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal from her longtime Madrid apartment has ignited protests, with demonstrators camping overnight in Puerta del Sol and demanding stronger tenant protections.
    — Alicia León, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Starting first thing Sunday morning, the Fight Club actor’s fans had been camping out by the entrance to the María Cristina Hotel, where the movie stars attending the San Sebastián Film Festival are staying since the showcase kicked off on Friday.
    — Amaia Odriozola, Vanity Fair, 20 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 5 Oct. 2026.

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