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
Performance is handled through LiteSpeed servers with built-in caching and optimization. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026 The new chip has a second-generation caching architecture that helps to double its ability to do math, the company said. — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025 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 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 Storage, caching, vector pipelines, and high-throughput data paths matter because context and retrieval are now foundational to how AI applications and agents operate. — Harsha Kotikela, Forbes.com, 1 July 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 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
  • Rinse thoroughly under cool running water, then dry before storing or using the vegetables.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 5 July 2026
  • Furthermore, the National Onion Association advises against storing onions with potatoes (onions emit ethylene gas, which will cause potatoes to ripen) or other produce that releases moisture and storing them in plastic bags.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 4 July 2026
Definition of storing
Verb
  • The government views concealing information about a student’s gender identity, even to parents who may not be accepting of that information, as an interference with their rights as parents.
    — Sofi Zeman July 1, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • The proud mom shared pictures of her and Green, 29, cuddling their little one in the hospital room, concealing the newborn's face in the snaps.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
Definition of concealing
Noun
  • After searching all the cat's favorite hiding spots, the owners assumed the white cat had walked out the front door.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • When word reached the family that the regime was targeting all the Gaetjens brothers, older brother Gérard urged him to go into hiding, James Gaetjens recalled about the conversation between his father and uncle.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of hiding
Verb
  • Europe often moves the other way, hoarding labor through downturns, and analysts count that instinct among the reasons its productivity has recently stalled.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But now that someone is hoarding spoons, things are officially a disaster.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Definition of hoarding
Verb
  • No mother should endure the agony of cremation and/or burying their child.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • It’s been over three decades since Wood was convicted of murdering six young women and girls and burying their bodies near El Paso – crimes for which he was nicknamed the Desert Killer.
    — Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 1 July 2026
Definition of burying
Noun
  • The virus is shed in wild bird saliva, nasal secretions and feces, so even droppings near the coop can carry it.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Backyard flocks usually contract bird flu through direct contact with infected wild birds, such as migratory ducks and geese, or indirectly through environments contaminated by wild bird saliva, nasal secretions and droppings.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Definition of secretion
Noun
  • His attorney, Erias Lukwago, was taken from his house and later charged with an offense related to the concealment of treason.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • In Ukraine and beyond, drones have already changed the relationship between concealment and exposure.
    — Bill Edwards, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of concealment

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“Caching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caching. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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