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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  • The company is positioning the feature as a way to make financial information easier to understand, rather than as a financial management or investment service.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Speaking to the Tribune before the taping, BET Networks president and West Side native Louis Carr said that the Soul Train Awards were coming to Chicago in a time when the city is positioning itself to be a major international player.
    — Mark P. Braboy, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of positioning
Verb
  • These systems are optimized for combat-ready maritime patrol in detecting, locating and tracking surface and undersea targets.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Only a fraction meet the conditions necessary for exploitation, but given the ease and speed of testing each one, locating vulnerable devices won’t require much effort or time.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of locating
Verb
  • Sow Right Seeds Pumpkin Seeds While this method of fall decor may take longer than ordering a premade item online, for those who have space, planting your own variety of pumpkins can produce all-natural homegrown decorations.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The industry publication Data Center Dynamics also pointed to a recent proposal by a Russian regional governor to build data centers within open-pit coal mines while planting green public parks above as camouflage.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of planting
Verb
  • The fundamental aim should be to strengthen Poland’s role as a leading security provider in the Baltic region alongside Germany, which is permanently stationing a brigade in Lithuania.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Federal laws explicitly prohibit military or federal officials from stationing troops or armed men where elections are held in an attempt to interfere with a federal election.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of stationing
Verb
  • The Romanians have begun deploying patrols of F-16 jets along the coast.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
  • As many as 2,000 Salvadoran troops are deploying — a number that could double or triple, Axios reported.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of deploying
Verb
  • The tax would be paid by lodging guests, not directly by property owners, and would remain in place until ended by voters.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • That officer then shot into Perez's vehicle, lodging a bullet in his back, officials say.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of lodging
Verb
  • Three summers ago, over Father’s Day weekend, my family and I went camping in the Lincoln National Forest, just a few hours drive north of our home in El Paso, Texas.
    — Cengiz Yar, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2026
  • With a few exceptions, practices for base-camping teams weren’t open to fans, which could have altered their decision to remain in Kansas City.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of camping
Verb
  • Dodge’s installation is ephemeral and finely tuned—light like a fog, yet adding gravity to the room, situating the viewer within it.
    — Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 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 Nov. 2026.

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