rearranging

present participle of rearrange

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Pressing for clearer answers For months, frustration among stakeholders has centered on numbers that keep shifting as the district revises its budget projections.
    Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Congress holds power of the purse The shifting funds are certain to ignite growing concerns in Congress over the separation of powers, and the president’s use of federal funds allocated by lawmakers.
    Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • Officers can use voice commands, and if those don’t work options include pepper spray, a baton, a TASER or fire extinguisher, though some are more difficult to use on a fast-moving animal, the directive says.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • Even 6 inches of moving water can pose a serious risk of knocking you off your feet.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2026
Verb
  • Rinse cans and bottles before disposing of them.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • 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
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
  • By orienting the spacecraft so the solar panels face the sun and the radiators face the deep vacuum of space, efficiency skyrockets for both.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 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 21 Jun. 2026.

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