tidying (up)

present participle of tidy (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidying (up)
Verb
  • Management responded by trimming 2025 EPS guidance by more than 10% to $30.
    John Buckingham, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Dolphins general manager Chris Grier spoke to the media on Wednesday, the day after trimming the team’s roster to 53 by the league’s deadline.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Those with routines to follow will want to check out the slim, weekly pill organizer from Vaydeer, and the Fyy Daily Pill Organizer is also great for organizing multiple medicine shapes, sizes, and quantities without taking up too much space.
    Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Ahead of Saturday’s demonstration, counter-terrorism officers in England and Scotland raided the homes of seven spokespeople from the activist group Defend Our Juries – which has been instrumental in organizing the protests – arresting and charging them all with terrorism offenses.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Around the country, arranging for housing is a relatively new and growing challenge for such PACE groups, which are funded through Medicaid and Medicare.
    Felice J. Freyer, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Tidying (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidying%20%28up%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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