PATCHING Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

patching 1 of 2

noun

as in fixing

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verb

present participle of patch

as in repairing

to put into good shape or working order again patch the tire and it'll be as good as new

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Recent Examples of patching

Noun

Crews need to close lanes and ramps overnight for emergency full-depth pavement patching and to install an overhead sign truss. — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 25 Aug. 2026 Beyond removing obsolete features, the Project Zero team emphasizes the importance of faster patching times. — Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026 Sulston pointed out that a clinic running its own AI would inherit responsibility for patching, backups and security. — New Atlas, 5 Aug. 2026 Now Google has announced that dynamic patching, with Chrome silently being updated in the background and requiring no such restarts, is a thing. — Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 In a geopolitical rupture, Europe could have less control over continuity, patching and access to core security tools. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 July 2026 It’s trained on the unique perspective Microsoft has acquired from decades of vulnerability patching and security incident responses involving a wide range of its products. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026 State workers are already using Claude to cut DMV wait times, streamline Medicaid workflows, and automate cyber defense patching. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Once pests are removed, there may be more necessary patching to prevent water seepage. — Helen Andriatsitohaina, The Spruce, 24 June 2026

Verb

The project gave a restricted frontier model to defenders specifically because Anthropic had observed that the same coding capability that finds software vulnerabilities for patching could, in the wrong hands, find them for exploitation. — Michael Flannery, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Cramer was having trouble patching his yellow fire shirt fast enough to cover all the new holes. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 While Epic and Google are patching things up with a global partnership agreement, the two are still on opposite sides of the antitrust case in the US. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 And Posey’s front office did as credible a job as could be expected at patching for the future. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Khlaaf says that labs should put more resources into capabilities that directly help defenders, such as detecting attacks, writing secure code, and patching vulnerabilities. — Harry Booth, Time, 24 July 2026 Now Burwell has emerged as the spine-tingling Angelo Badalamenti to Barker’s David Lynch, or maybe a synth-patching Bernard Herrmann to Barker’s Alfred Hitchcock. — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026 Microsoft just released a long list of improvements for Windows 11 as part of its bigger patch Tuesdays, patching at least 570 security holes, almost triple the number fixed in last month’s record-breaking release, according to Krebs on Security. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 July 2026 Finding and patching software bugs more quickly is obviously good, especially amid signs that hackers are starting to embrace AI as well. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for patching

Noun

These include criminal convictions for a wide range of offences, a ban by a sporting or professional body, or breaches of certain key football regulations, such as match-fixing.

— Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
While Apple has not said publicly that the bug has been exploited in the real world, it’s still seen as serious and to need urgent fixing.

— David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of fixing

Verb

The loving siblings of a San Jose city electrician killed while repairing a streetlight are still waiting for answers about the crash that ended his life.

— Maddie White, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Technicians have continued inspecting and repairing suspension systems throughout the fleet.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of repairing

Noun

Nick Bosa, who’s coming back from his third ACL repair, missed most of training camp while 2025 first-round pick Mykel Williams will start the season on PUP.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
However, Marks does offer GHK-Cu both as a serum and cream and occasionally as an injection, usually mixed with other peptides aimed at tissue repair and inflammation.

— Will Stone, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of repair

Verb

For the 23-year-old from China, the win over Keys was an impressive feat of composure, that will go a long way toward rebuilding both her confidence and her ranking.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Because solutions are designed with model-agnostic architecture, organizations can adopt future AI innovations without rebuilding their underlying systems.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026