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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  • Which means the Knicks have yet another team positioning itself as a roadblock on their journey to repeat as NBA champions — a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since the Wizards last cracked the 40-win mark.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Google on Thursday unveiled a new AI agent tailored for workplace tasks, positioning it to compete with other technology giants racing to offer their own virtual office assistants.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of positioning
Verb
  • After cops released a wanted poster Wednesday calling Carrasco armed and dangerous and asked the public’s help locating him, an acquaintance turned up at the 49th Precinct stationhouse, police sources said.
    — Theodore Parisienne, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In addition, Thompson is the only prosecutor in Idaho history to win a murder conviction without investigators ever locating the victim’s body.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of locating
Verb
  • Teaching teams how to win, planting seeds of a healthy culture and seeing the fruits of that laborious efforts, is far more important than picking at the top of any draft.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Atlanta lawyer sues Alabama city alleging dirty cop A police officer faces criminal charges for planting evidence in the attorney’s car.
    — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of planting
Verb
  • Spooking, for example, involves stationing a partner near a dealer.
    — Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of stationing
Verb
  • Rights groups say police are deploying ​heavy-handed force with rubber bullets and batons against the protesters, many of them schoolchildren.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Jim noted that in the era of companies deploying AI agents to operate autonomously, there needs to be third-party organizations providing protection.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 6 Oct. 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 new Pickupmate Trunk from Chinese car camping specialist Wild Land is an impressive piece of truck camping kit that fuses several different products into one.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Corthell offered to introduce me to Tyler Hughes, who was also camping in the gayborhood.
    — David Alm, Longreads, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of camping
Verb
  • Does the emphasis in this summer’s shows on Lee’s painting suggest a new phase in the reception of his work—situating him, perhaps, in greater proximity to Korean dansaekhwa painting than to the School of Things?
    — Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of situating

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“Parking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parking. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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