cached

verb

past tense of cache
1
as in stored
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place an eccentric who cached money in odd places, such as under the boards of the floor

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2
as in buried
to put into a hiding place cached the fugitives in their cellar until they could make their way to Canada

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Recent Examples of cached For example, re-reading the same context, re-running the same retrieval, and re-generating answers that could have been cached, embedded or pre-computed. — Sumeet Agrawal, Fortune, 20 July 2026 This Mars Sample Return project was well underway, with specimens cached on Mars ready for retrieval, but is now in limbo because of budget cuts. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 June 2026 There was also a supply of gas cached at the campsite. — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026 The data on genomes that are cached in the museum will be open-sourced, providing researchers and geneticists around the world with information on all 10,000 species, in pursuit of conservation or de-extinction projects similar to what Colossal achieved with the dire wolf. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 Feb. 2026 The team cached model weights on network file storage rather than downloading them from external repositories, reducing model loading time by 10-15%. — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026 This prevents session hijacking if the system keeps tokens cached. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cached
  1. stored
  2. buried
  3. stashed
  4. concealed
Verb
  • All samples were photographed and cleaned of debris, placed in tubes, and stored in a freezer for DNA extraction and analysis.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The snack can be made ahead of time, stored in the freezer, and divided into portions for the week.
    — Sharon Lawson, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of stored
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  • The beloved pup died in 1840 and is buried on the grounds of Windsor Castle, per English Heritage.
    — Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Also this week, the county coroner’s office released partially redacted reports confirming that all nine of the people died from asphyxiation after being buried under the snow.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of buried
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  • Other common features include patch pockets into which items can easily be stashed away and retrieved, and softer constructions that typically do away with paddings, linings and sometimes leave the jacket completely unstructured.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This goes for yeast packets stashed in the back of the pantry, too.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of stashed
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  • Rigney and Gere play this back-and-forth perfectly, the instantly emerging tension between them barely concealed behind tight smiles.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The suit also claims the companies failed to warn the public about the environmental and health risks of those chemicals and in many cases concealed the risks.
    — Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of concealed

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