parking

present participle of park

Example Sentences

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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
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Verb
  • Nadella is talking his own book — Microsoft has no frontier model of its own and, in the middle of a messy uncoupling from OpenAI, is positioning itself as the enabler of the learning loop rather than the model underneath.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
  • The Historyverse project will be produced through Galleri5, Collective Studios’s in-house AI storytelling studio, with the company positioning emerging technology as a complement to the source material’s narrative and philosophical core rather than a departure from it.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • New London police shared information about the vehicle to other area departments in the hopes of locating it, police said.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • Los Angeles Police Department detectives are seeking help locating a hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian in North Hollywood on Thursday.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 13 June 2026
Verb
  • Clearly, whoever had previously owned the place wasn't just planting crops.
    Jacqueline Goldblatt, PC Magazine, 13 June 2026
  • Thyme can take two years after planting to start blooming.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • In a move to further cement its position as a dominant air carrier in San Diego, Alaska Airlines will launch next year its first pilot base here, with the goal of stationing up to 250 captains and first officers at the airport.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Saturn stationing direct prompts you to claim your authority in collective spaces.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 27 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Events like this matter, the Lawrences say, because military life brings a unique set of pressures for kids — from parents deploying to constant relocations.
    Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Chinese aerospace analysts said the event signals Beijing’s progress in building large, multi-role UAVs capable of deploying swarms of smaller drones.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The hoteliers also groused that New Jersey and Philadelphia had proposed raising sales or lodging taxes in order to squeeze visitors.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • Last July and August, lodging sales in Buncombe County declined by more than 20% compared to the same months in 2024, illustrating a slowdown in tourism numbers since the hurricane.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • Rondeau described her father as a devoted dad who took her to volleyball and softball practice, went camping with her and taught her about the outdoors.
    Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • Berghaus and her co-authors Marco Drewes of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and Sebastian Zell of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich take this a step further in their new paper, firmly situating warm inflation in the Standard Model itself.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
  • My cross-cultural background played a significant role in situating the project across two cities that are worlds apart geographically and culturally.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Parking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parking. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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