rearranging

present participle of rearrange

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Verb
  • And yet, the through-line of its main character's desperation connects Kill List's shifting tones, following a PTSD-addled war veteran's attempts to provide for his family by accepting his friend's offer to team up on a high-paying contract killing job.
    Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • Ho Hern Shin, a deputy managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore who led the board's work on AI, presented the practices as a way to help firms adopt the technology responsibly while the ground keeps shifting beneath them.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • As officers approached, the boy appeared disoriented and began moving farther into the water, at times going under the surface, police said.
    Doug Myers, CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • Congress is moving to put more pressure on Sudan’s warring factions, as the three-year war perpetuates one of the globe’s worst humanitarian crises.
    Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • Safely disposing of dead satellites—by dragging them down to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere or boosting them out of the way of other orbiting objects—is a problem the industry still hasn’t solved.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
  • The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the murder conviction of a man who was accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her body around for months before disposing of it.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 11 June 2026
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
  • Then there’s writing it, and then there’s putting it out.
    Holly Gleason, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Despite her shooting woes, Clark still controlled the game by consistently putting teammates in position to score.
    James Boyd, New York Times, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Christian Walker followed with a solo homer of his own, depositing an 87 mph slider into the left-field bullpen.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026
  • The lead was short-lived, however, as Rodriguez led off the fifth by depositing a 0-1 cutter from Alcantara over the wall in right-center field.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • The same goes for orienting the couch at the right distance and viewing angle.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026
  • Humans should take the lead, at the beginning of a project, sketching out the rough drafts, and orienting the thing, before calling in AI to refine, or add, or analyze.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
Verb
  • Bobadilla then did the rest, inadvertently sticking his right foot in front of the ball and bouncing it by Paraguayan keeper Orlando Gil.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
  • In fact, it can be rewarded for sticking the landing.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 June 2026
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“Rearranging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rearranging. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.

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