sequencing

verb

present participle of sequence
as in prioritizing

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  1. prioritizing
  2. filing
  3. grading
  4. organizing
  5. sorting
  6. categorizing
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  • Choosing Safe Cookware Stocking your kitchen with safe cookware, including stainless steel, is just as important as prioritizing nutritious ingredients in your refrigerator and pantry.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 13 Nov. 2026
  • This will require substantial reform to restore these institutions’ legitimacy and their capacity to act, prioritizing measures that will contribute the most to peace and security.
    — Pedro Sánchez, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of prioritizing
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  • Even so, the administration quickly pivoted, filing a brief in a related case that also made claims that California’s voter rolls contained noncitizens who voted illegally.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Failing to notify your insurer about certain changes could also create complications when filing a claim, so take time to review your policy whenever your circumstances change.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of filing
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  • Demand for grading — an act of verifying a card’s authenticity and condition — has grown as collectors increasingly treat trading and vintage sports cards as alternative investments.
    — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Brian Gilchrist, managing director for development at Western National, said his company has already started grading work at the site, yet now is being asked to rework its plans to meet the new codes.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
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  • The Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation, which is organizing the service, is a non-profit that provides support to local law enforcement agencies and families when an officer is killed in the line of duty.
    — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The conservative Popular Party and far-right Vox, which already govern in some parts of Spain, accuse the unions of organizing the protests to keep the current government in power.
    — Natalie Feary, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of organizing
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  • The county’s purchase of a third mail sorting machine, Logan said, also helped workers to more quickly process the massive influx of ballot envelopes that voters drop off at vote centers or in drop boxes on election day.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Her book is more searching-and-sorting and less curating, if that makes sense.
    — David Michon, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of sorting
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  • Drawing on her background in cultural anthropology, Cathy Orr, cofounder of The Uncluttered Life, says grouping similar items is a natural inclination and that humans make sense of their environment by categorizing it.
    — Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday rejected the idea that election monitors being deployed to polls during the midterm elections will be armed, categorizing the notion as fearmongering and false.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of categorizing
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“Sequencing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequencing. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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