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as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
the standard grouping for an average living room: sofa, matching wing chairs, and the inevitable coffee table
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as in group
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
the next grouping of tourists can start the house tour as soon as the last bunch leaves
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as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type
you should first group the invertebrates by genus
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as in assembling
to bring together in one body or place
group the kids together and we'll see if they're all here
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Recent Examples of grouping
Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Tab grouping will also soon be available on Chrome in iOS, and should be able to sync across desktops as well.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2024
The final grouping is set to include the Strawberry Shortcake, Sherlock Hound, Royal Knight, Macaron, and Ice King masks.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Even as the grouping attracts growing interest as a political and economic counterweight to the West, tensions are simmering over its direction and influence.
—Henry Meyer, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
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Among her film’s subjects is a grouping of more than two dozen artifacts that were looted by French soldiers from the Kingdom of Dahomey in 1892, only to finally be returned home, in present-day Benin, in 2021, more than a century later.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Tab grouping will also soon be available on Chrome in iOS, and should be able to sync across desktops as well.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2024
The final grouping is set to include the Strawberry Shortcake, Sherlock Hound, Royal Knight, Macaron, and Ice King masks.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Even as the grouping attracts growing interest as a political and economic counterweight to the West, tensions are simmering over its direction and influence.
—Henry Meyer, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
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Apple’s 14-core M4 Pro CPU cluster was able to fend off the ZBook Fury’s 14th Gen Intel mobile workstation chip’s 24 cores.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Down clusters are three-dimensional spirals, not to be confused with feathers, which are flat, provide no loft, and poke through fabric.Marni Jameson, arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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Just extending the expiring tax cuts would drive up deficits by $4.6 trillion over 10 years, and all of Trump’s campaign plans would add much as $7.75 trillion, according to estimates by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog group.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Some groups also observed that the residents were getting a superior reward by using their methods.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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One way of classifying AI techniques is on a continuum of how these techniques are designed and operate.Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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An everyday use for it might be classifying lots of images based on things contained within them.Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
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Groove Botanicals plans to focus on assembling a portfolio of early-stage EV Battery Technologies and is seeking grants and corporate partners to commercialize these technologies.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Storytelling, for example, isn’t just about assembling words and tapping into shared human experiences.Mark Minevich, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Volvo has since adjusted its plans to only manufacture the first batch of EX30s in China and move all future production to Belgium, according to Car & Driver.Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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As polling stations open across the United States, the race for the White House is anyone's to win based on the final batch of national surveys.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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My friend gave me a whole bunch of her little girl’s clothes — such a high volume of items that some still had the tags on.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Wolk herself responded to the controversy by tweeting a bunch, naturally.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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This is just one of three 1964 Valiants in his collection, none of which are for sale.David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Back in February, Marc Jacobs unveiled his Fall/Winter 2024 collection a full week ahead of the official NYFW calendar.India Espy-Jones, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
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But the gel on the inside of the band did pull on my hair uncomfortably.Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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This will also be the band’s first Bay Area show without vocalist Chester Bennington, who died in 2017.Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Grouping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grouping. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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