tabbing

verb

present participle of tab
as in identifying

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  1. identifying
  2. naming
  3. designating
  4. stamping
  5. earmarking
  6. calling
Verb
  • OpenAI said the partnership would bring different expertise and approaches to identifying weaknesses.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of identifying
Verb
  • Nvidia’s whirlwind week Huang on Sunday admitted to having an extramarital affair, without naming the other party, and apologized to his family and colleagues.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Sanders has introduced legislation that would ban naming federal buildings or land after one.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of naming
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  • Williamson and Prime Sports signed a five-year marketing representation contract, covering endorsement and sponsorship deals and designating Ford as Williamson’s exclusive representative for those types of deals.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • OpenAI’s approach to two of the three results also directly violates a clarifying statement AGMAI issued just a day before they were released by designating specific experts to shepherd the results into the public sphere.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of designating
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  • When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stamping
Verb
  • United Democracy Project will continue operating, according to the letter, preserving AIPAC's ability to raise unlimited sums for independent political spending even as the group ends candidate endorsements, direct PAC contributions and earmarking.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
  • But considering the child of someone whose transformational philanthropy may fund scholarships for low-income students for generations is a far cry from earmarking admissions slots simply because a parent attended the university.
    — Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of earmarking
Verb
  • After calling the Sheriff’s Office a second time, Abeyta confronted Atkins in the parking lot, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Another person calling from PoorHouse said the whole building was ablaze but hung up upon realizing the police had already arrived.
    — Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of calling
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“Tabbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabbing. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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