tabling

present participle of table

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabling
Verb
  • Legislators passed a law two years ago barring the use of the QR code for the official vote count beyond July 1 of this year, but no replacement method of tabulating votes was ever implemented.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • The dispute stems from legislation passed in 2024 that prohibited Georgia from using QR codes as the official method of tabulating votes after July 1, 2026.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • Today's top stories Vice President Vance is postponing his trip to Switzerland, where he was set to negotiate terms of a peace agreement with Iran.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 June 2026
  • More women are also postponing children to advance their education or careers, but still go on to have around two kids, on average, in their 30s and 40s.
    David Hickey, NBC news, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Britain is following a similar strategy as Australia, whose social media ban for kids went into effect in December 2025, but is adding more security measures, according to the government.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • When adding fish oil supplements to your daily routine, plan to take them with a meal or snack.
    Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • History is replete with wars that end in interim agreements, deferring difficult issues to future negotiations, only for the interim arrangement to become permanent.
    Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • The county’s cost-saving measures include eliminating vacant positions, cutting programs, deferring maintenance projects, increasing revenue and implementing layoffs.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy.
    Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
  • The team believes the approach could provide chip designers with a platform for predicting transistor performance and scaling limits before fabrication begins, potentially shortening development cycles for future AI and high-performance computing chips.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization quickly followed suit, shelving the project that had been in the works for over a decade and ruffling feathers at the state level and among business leaders.
    Nicholas Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2026
  • The program offers training from shelving to handling cash.
    Marianne Love, Daily News, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • Angel Reese starred again for the Dream on Thursday night in Indianapolis, tallying her 10th double-double of the season in a 108-101 win over the Fever.
    AJC Sports, AJC.com, 19 June 2026
  • The human-rights groups are also tallying Iran’s civilian war dead—about 1,700, according to HRANA, 250 of them children—and tracking a campaign of domestic repression and intimidation that has escalated since the United States and Israel began striking Iran on February 28.
    Laura Secor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Seats are limited, and Peacock recommends reserving them in advance.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
  • An unwritten rule reserving membership for liberal democracies keeps authoritarian China out, even as its trade surplus, rare minerals, military buildup and huge carbon footprint dominate the summit’s agenda.
    John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
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“Tabling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabling. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.

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