PROCESSING Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

processing

verb

present participle of process

as in refining

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as in reprocessing

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Today's synthetic motor oil is heavily dependent on Group III base oils, which are mostly made from refining crude oil.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic may well follow suit by refining their own bots to have more Instinct-like capabilities.

— Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of refining

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Instead of filtering candidates by degree requirements alone, employers can search for the exact skills to succeed in a job.

— Raghu Krishnaiah, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Nick Wosika / Imagn Images The positive message filtering out of the clubhouse has been the same all year.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of filtering

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Clementine, the oldest daughter, takes control to help break out the other children, and Mary, in telling her story publicly, has agency in rectifying the familial curse.

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
Instead, the council majority voted to ban the use of firearms in the city, rectifying an apparent oversight in 2011 that removed the prohibition on shooting firearms from a list of weapons that were banned.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of rectifying

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Best Last-Chance Amazon Home Labor Day Sales Give your home a refresh with last-minute deals on fresh cozy bedding, cleaning gadgets, and décor.

— Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2026
Dip your microfiber cloth into the mixture and apply it to the zellige tiles, cleaning in gentle circles.

— Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 5 Sep. 2026

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The Big Ten issued a statement two hours after the game, clarifying the process that was used and citing the rule that was enforced about when the clock stops if a player touches the ball out of bounds.

— Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026
From there, use hair-care products to address other needs, like protecting your color or clarifying the scalp.

— Elise Tabin, InStyle, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of clarifying

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The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
American companies and government officials have increasingly alleged in recent months that Chinese models are built by distilling American ones.

— Kevin Collier, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of distilling

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Pure Copper Charm, which comes in two adorable shapes, a heart or star, is a natural antimicrobial and releases purifying trace copper ions into vase water.

— Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2026
Potential applications include purifying pyrolysis oil produced from waste plastics, recovering industrial solvents used in battery manufacturing, pharmaceutical purification, and biofuel production.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026

Definition of purifying

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Fibr produced the dataset by extracting composition information published on retailers’ product pages.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
That company has a method for extracting lithium from salt water brine, skipping a common refining process typically needed to get the material from hard rock.

— Robert Ferris, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026

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