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groupings

noun

plural of grouping

as in clusters

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 groups

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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Recent Examples of groupings Lemon mostly worked in personnel groupings with Smith and Wicks. — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The Phase One regional groupings for the Leagues Cup were as follows. — Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026 Remove any large groupings of plants like saw palmetto, yaupon, wax myrtle and gallberry, especially if the plants are close to the home, adjacent decks or porches or under eaves or overhangs. — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Other middle powers such as Brazil, India, Iran, and Turkey are creating and joining a plethora of similar groupings, balancing and hedging between the great powers. — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 So on Friday, at UCLA’s second fall practice, the Bruins shifted around personnel and paired various offensive groupings. — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 8 Aug. 2026 Scale and proportion also play a major role in helping groupings look balanced. — Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2026 When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings. — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026 These groupings leave out some players under contract in Sean Kuraly, Alex Steeves and Mikey Eyssimont. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026

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Nine of the top ten robot-building metro clusters in OpenMind's index are in East Asia.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
What the team could do is look at the architecture of these clusters.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026

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El-Sayed dismissed a potential fundraising gap in the race, which could occur if donors were pushed towards Rogers or if outside groups like AIPAC intervened on Rogers’ behalf.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Wednesday’s State Department announcement also traced the collective to leftist groups across Europe that posted materials about their attacks on rail and energy infrastructure.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2026

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That transition will test whether the startup’s manufacturing-first approach can work outside prototypes and small test batches.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
Working in batches as necessary so as not to overcrowd the pan, add the chicken and cook until golden-brown on both sides, 2 to 3 minutes per side.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of batches

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Reddington disputed the prosecution’s take on the elastic workout bands Clancy used to strangle her children.

— Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026
Prosecutors allege Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband to pick up takeout food and medicine, then, while he was gone, strangling the children with exercise bands.

— Melina Khan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of bands

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The footwear brand has also released capsule collections with musicians like Luke Combs and Post Malone, and Crocs dropped an F1 collab with Red Bull Oracle Racing in May.

— Tim Chan, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026
About 932 miles north of Perth, Murujuga contains one of the world’s most significant and dense collections of ancient petroglyphs, dating back about 50,000 years.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of collections

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To keep the arrays from catching the wind like sails, engineers mount the solar panels at much flatter tilt angles than those used in typical ground installations.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
That means the measurements provided by pulsar timing arrays could help determine how abundant heavy black hole seeds were in the early universe.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of arrays

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Often these assemblages of items are tied together in a bundle or bag and may be referred to as hands, mojos, or gris-gris.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Six years later, MOCA commissioned Saar to create a series of assemblages and installations to accompany 10 performances of Ellen Sebastian’s theatrical production Sanctified.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of assemblages

Noun

Observed from lower latitudes, the orbital parade of satellites would peak in brightness at sunrise and sunset; toward the poles, the constellations would be bright and visible for most of the night during winter and the equinoxes.

— Arielle Frommer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
Observing the constellations, the faint glow of distant planets, and the occasional shooting star left me with a sense of awe.

— Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026

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