as in distance
the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects
the spacing of the houses was a little tight
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Recent Examples of spacing
That unit would sacrifice size (with no players taller than the lanky, 6-foot-8 Boucher) in the name of spacing and perimeter shooting.
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Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
There’s also great spacing between adult male-skewing titles, Archangel arriving three weeks after Street Fighter and four weeks before Violent Night 2.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
The pair, co-leaders of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Morphogenesis, had been trying to figure out how the regular spacing of a bird’s feathers comes about.
—Anna Demming, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
Proper spacing can help each plant develop strong root systems.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
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Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
There’s also great spacing between adult male-skewing titles, Archangel arriving three weeks after Street Fighter and four weeks before Violent Night 2.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
The pair, co-leaders of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Morphogenesis, had been trying to figure out how the regular spacing of a bird’s feathers comes about.
—Anna Demming, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
Proper spacing can help each plant develop strong root systems.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spacing
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There were three distance options -- 20, 50 and 100 kilometers -- that led riders north up in and around the Bella Vista area before bringing them back to downtown Bentonville.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Golden State Warriors are now a good distance above the rest of the league, thanks largely to the favorable economics of their arena.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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With Pervis Estupinan or Davide Bartesaghi holding width on the left and No 9 Santiago Gimenez dragging defenders away, Pulisic attacks the gap between centre-back and full-back, arriving in stride rather than starting wide.—
Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Granatosky and his team made measurements of the rat hole using images taken of it, including from snout to tail, head width, the base of the tail and the length of the identifiable fingers and claws.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Such pleasurable pains, at their most chronic, or their most carnal, can keep Lang occupied for the length of a stanza.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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The panel broached intersectionality at length, highlighting how equality should follow larger conversations on gender identity, race and class.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Spacing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spacing. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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