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
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  • As their name implies, each qubit is stored in an ion, an atom that has lost one or more of its electrons.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Much of it exists as scans of handwritten documents, stored but functionally invisible to any system trying to draw conclusions from them.
    — Amanda Turcotte, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • But many of us have buried our beloved pets in our yards beneath new trees as an alternative to cremation.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The synth melody is poignant through the buds, but the upper vocal harmony and some of the upper-register atmospheric instruments are slightly buried.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of buried
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  • Firearms purchased in Florida were put in small backpacks and stashed in a trashcan in the library bathroom, the department said.
    — Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Oh, and although there are surfboards stashed throughout the property, none of the goats actually get on them.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • Faux freckles grew into a beauty trend as freckles shifted from a feature often concealed to one people deliberately recreate, often improvising with everyday makeup like brow pencils and eyeliner before dedicated products arrived.
    — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The Gonzalès retrospective also raises the question of why this allegiance remained largely concealed for part of her early career.
    — Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of concealed

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“Cached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cached. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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