typing

verb

present participle of type
as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type type the birds by geographical range

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Recent Examples of typing On Tuesday, June 16th, Doyle was sitting in his car, typing the address of that day’s job into his phone, when a dozen or so armed federal agents suddenly swarmed his vehicle. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Voice moderation adds protection when kids are talking instead of typing. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 So, sending emails, typing up documents, and streaming videos will be your primary capabilities here. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026 There’s solid evidence that handwriting beats typing for learning and memory. — Mary Jean Tecce Decarlo, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026 Rather than typing your entire research question into the JSTOR search bar, use your keywords to guide your research. — Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2026 Greg is working a side job delivering pizzas while Denise is secretly typing up a maybe-aspirational novel about a woman dreaming of leaving her family. — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 Instead of typing, users can sign to search the web, write messages and documents, or interact with Google’s Gemini. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 But software delivery was never bottlenecked by typing speed. — Muhammad Muzammil Rawjani, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for typing
  1. classifying
  2. ranking
  3. grouping
  4. distinguishing
  5. sorting
  6. relegating
  7. grading
  8. placing
Verb
  • Summarizing documents, classifying information, answering routine questions and automating standard workflows don't always require the most capable model available.
    — Tiffany Chang, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The following conversation touches on Rock's latest project and process, writing young characters and classifying his own work into a genre.
    — Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of classifying
Verb
  • The Pentagon subjected high-ranking members to polygraph tests as part of an investigation into the source of leaks to journalists about how the war in Iran has created a shortage of sophisticated munitions, according to multiple media reports.
    — Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Her clever approach looks at a large number of middle schools in Norway, ranking their divergent smartphone policies across a range from strictness to leniency.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of ranking
Verb
  • But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This time around, however, the tech giant is establishing parameters on mass arbitration by grouping them in batches of 25, 100, and 500, depending on the total number of claimants with similar issues.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouping
Verb
  • However, recent scholarship posits that the structure was used as ordinary (rather than punitive) housing, and that the vulgar decor was in fact a distinguishing characteristic of the epoch.
    — Jim Greer, SPIN, 3 Sep. 2026
  • This is particularly useful because deer are often active during twilight, when detecting predators can be more important than distinguishing a broad range of colors.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of distinguishing
Verb
  • Niutech claims its process can accept low-value plastic waste without requiring the complex washing, sorting and drying processes commonly associated with recycling.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Four Russian glide bombs destroyed a sorting center belonging to the postal service Nova Poshta in the northern Sumy region, and a drone smashed one of its depots in the Kyiv region, the company said.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of sorting
Verb
  • With Belton’s regression and weaknesses in pass protection relegating him to the backup right tackle, the starting right guard spot seems to be a competition between Jacob Monk (currently leading) and Burton.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • As cognitive psychologist Ronald Kellogg noted in a new essay for New York Times, students are heavily relegating cognitive tasks to AI tools, effectively losing the ability to think.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of relegating
Verb
  • Teachers will be able to use AI tools for creating lesson plans and completing administrative tasks, but not for grading assignments.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Hinojosa promised to pause the A-F school grading system and replace it with an assessment that brings true accountability.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of grading
Verb
  • Traffic lights were out at about 80 intersections, so city workers were using generators and placing stop signs at those intersections, the statement said.
    — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Hours later, her parents were arrested in Carter County, Tennessee — more than 350 miles away — and charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk or willfully abandoning a child.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of placing

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“Typing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typing. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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