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Synonyms and Antonyms of placing
- he carefully placed the flowers in a vase
moving, rearranging, reordering, shifting
establishing, locating, planting, settling
clapping, flopping, planking, plopping, plumping, plunking (or plonking), plunking down (or plonking down), slapping
affixing, anchoring, locking, lodging, wedging
arraying, laying out, lining up, queuing (or queueing), ranking
- I'd place those cyclists in the advanced group for the training ride
arraying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling (or marshalling), ordering, organizing, systematizing
alphabetizing, cataloging (or cataloguing), filing, indexing, listing, referring
culling, screening, setting, sieving, sifting, winnowing
clumping, clustering, colligating
- I'd place that as roughly the third largest house in the neighborhood
calculating, calling, conjecturing, estimating, figuring, gauging (also gaging), guessing, judging, making, putting, reckoning, supposing
- placed second in the competition
- placed the recent college grad in the company's research and development division
- once again the issue of recurrent vandalism at the high school was placed before the town council
- most of the trainees at the TV station are placed in clerical positions
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