caching 1 of 2

noun

as in stashing
the placing of something out of sight the caching of holiday gifts in the weeks before Christmas

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caching

2 of 2

verb

present participle of cache
1
as in storing
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 concealing
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 caching
Noun
Squirrels, other rodents and a variety of birds typically do the caching, storing the acorns to be eaten later when conditions soften the outer shell. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
Third, watch inference optimization, caching, compression and orchestration platforms. — Dr. Suresh Rajappa, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Super frugal use of memory bandwidth, caching exactly what is needed & squeezing microseconds out of everything are needed to maintain the frame rate. — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Last week’s CopyFail exploited faulty page caching in the authencesn AEAD template process, which is used for IPsec extended sequence numbers. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026 Why Squirrels Are Attracted to Bulbs Squirrels are food-caching animals, meaning their strategy is to find and store high-calorie foods to sustain them through winter. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 20 Apr. 2026 Performance is handled through LiteSpeed servers with built-in caching and optimization. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026 Multiple programs and projects face the axe, including the Mars Sample Return Mission, which is currently underway, with the Perseverance rover caching rock and soil samples that a later spacecraft would fly to Mars and collect. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caching
  1. stashing
  2. storing
  3. concealing
  4. hiding
  5. hoarding
  6. burying
  7. secretion
  8. concealment
Noun
  • Researchers believe some kind of ritual marked this massive deposit, as the feasting and decorative objects might correspond to an event that might have propelled the stashing away of these astonishing artifacts, as per Heritage Daily.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The Rams have 10 picks in this year’s draft, and that’s too many for any team, but especially one that has been drafting and stashing players after the first round for a few years.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Definition of stashing
Verb
  • Decades later, the government was still buying surplus cheese and storing it in vast underground caves in Missouri, Wisconsin, and Kansas, warehouses cool enough to hold the cheese for years without spoiling.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • By that decade, governments were storing personal information on computers for purposes like keeping track of tax payments and providing benefits to veterans.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of storing
Verb
  • Keith has been charged with felony concealing the death of another person and felony making false statements.
    — CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Now that Sugar’s inner monologue isn’t concealing his true self, Farrell opens up beautifully.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of concealing
Noun
  • But Indiana got hosed and Notre Dame (whom Gen Z might now hate) could be a national champ contender in hiding.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
  • There is no hiding from the fact that clean hydrogen sits at the expensive end of decarbonization.
    — Sverre Alvik, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of hiding
Verb
  • Los Angeles sued its longtime fundraising partner in 2024, accusing GLAZA of breaching agreements and hoarding zoo data and funds.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
  • Retirement savers are hoarding cash Retirement savers also reported keeping a sizeable share of their savings in cash, a choice that bespeaks mistrust in financial markets.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 18 July 2026
Definition of hoarding
Verb
  • In Bosnia, people are still identifying and burying their dead 31 years after the Srebrenica massacre.
    — Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
  • For the three children of the stranger who had returned to seek refuge, fifteen years had passed between the collective joy of independence and the personal tragedy of burying their father in a graveyard already full of their uncles’ memories.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of burying
Noun
  • Women in ancient Rome used toad secretions to murder their husbands; 16th-century Italian chemists laced salts with toad toxins for poisoning the food of enemies.
    — Kimon de Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Several studies have found that snail mucus secretions can kill bacteria and prevent skin infections from worsening, especially when applied to wounds.
    — Laura Dorwart, Health, 22 July 2026
Definition of secretion
Noun
  • This will be the first complete solar concealment on continental Europe since 1999.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Leroy Allen Loper, 54, has been charged with felony murder, first degree kidnapping, and concealment of a death by trying to destroy human remains, officials said.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026
Definition of concealment

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