welding

verb

present participle of weld
as in cementing

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  1. combining
  2. fusing
  3. stringing
  4. coalescing
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  • After combining to win just 60 games over the past three seasons, good health could see the team residing in the nation’s capital crack 40 wins for the first time since 2018.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The new system takes the concept in a different direction by combining hydrogen production with chemical synthesis.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of combining
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  • Resilience does not come from replacing existing infrastructure but from fusing independent transport layers.
    — Rohit Jha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Googlebooks are trying to stand out by fusing Android and ChromeOS into a more powerful operating system that can also access content on your phone and harness Google's Gemini AI.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026
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  • From stringing her Syrn bras across the Hollywood sign to her divisive American Eagle ad, she is used to the drama.
    — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Finally, on a Sunday night in January, Ricky Craig began stringing Christmas lights around the base of a vast, unidentifiable object—half of the storybook cottage formerly known as Pinky.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of stringing
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  • This extreme foregrounding of character in terms of action endows the cast with a retrospective air of typecasting, in a positive sense—the actors seem made for their parts, coalescing with their characters temperamentally.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Every so often, the British writer-director Mike Leigh makes a movie in which the stars — and the tartly casual dramatic scenes — line up, coalescing into a full-on vision of prickly humanity.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of coalescing
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“Welding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welding. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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