positioning

verb

present participle of position
as in situating
to arrange something in a certain spot or position positioned the chairs around the room

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Recent Examples of positioning That footprint suggests the company is positioning itself not as a niche design house, but as a serious domestic AI computing player. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026 As Metabulin advances toward commercialization, the company is positioning its work at the intersection of scientific discovery and practical application. — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 6 July 2026 One of the biggest engineering challenges was positioning the GPS and V2X antennas. — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 4 July 2026 The company is positioning the tools as a way to reshape finance work and broader operations, reflecting Cisco’s wider push to embed AI into its business. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 2 July 2026 As the global collector car calendar continues to expand beyond traditional concours destinations, Concours of Elegance Germany 2026 is positioning itself as one of Europe's standout automotive events. — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 Bellingham timed his run well, helped by Kane and Marcus Rashford positioning themselves for a deep ball. — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Not that Friedland is overtly positioning his show as a platform for politicians. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026 Comcast is positioning itself for the next round of media industry merger and acquisition activity. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for positioning
  1. situating
  2. placing
  3. putting
  4. locating
Verb
  • The original Little House series quickly moved past the events of the eponymous book, in which the family briefly settles in Kansas, on tribal land known as the Osage Diminished Reserve, situating the Ingallses more permanently in Minnesota.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2026
  • That means tracking everything from shipping to unboxing to situating it in our bedrooms.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2026
Definition of situating
Verb
  • Tyler officially caught the singing bug after placing second at the talent show hosted by a local rugby club.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Two Miami-Dade church camp counselors were arrested Wednesday for allegedly abusing a 9-year-old boy by placing large orange cones over his head and repeatedly hitting him, according to the sheriff’s office.
    — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
Definition of placing
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  • Belgium was on the front foot from the start, taking six shots and putting two on target in the first eight minutes before going ahead on De Ketelaere’s first goal in the ninth minute.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • A week later, the TPUSA board unanimously voted to install Erika as their new chief executive, putting her at the forefront of his advocacy efforts.
    — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
Definition of putting
Verb
  • By co-locating generation next to the racks, the partners bypass years-long interconnection queues.
    — Junaid Ali, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • According to Argentina’s Ministry of Defense, the dogs are trained to operate in complex disaster environments and perform two critical tasks alongside their handlers – locating survivors and recovering victims trapped beneath collapsed structures.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of locating

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