carding

verb

present participle of card
1
as in filing

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2
as in combing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carding
  1. filing
  2. combing
  3. recording
  4. raking
  5. booking
  6. cataloging
  7. indexing
  8. tabulating
Verb
  • Those filing the lawsuit alleged that the agreements gave Disney significant leverage over streaming bundle prices, limited competitors' ability to offer lower-cost alternatives and contributed to higher prices for consumers.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • For example, individual filers can receive up to $994, couples filing jointly can receive $1,491, and those providing essential care to SSI recipients can receive up to $498.
    — Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026
Definition of filing
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  • Rescuers have been combing through the rubble of the hotel in a desperate attempt to save any survivors.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Watchers of the original have been combing through the unrated version, which lists the same runtime as the original, looking for differences.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of combing
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  • At the time, Taylor was in the process of re-recording her first six albums after not being given the chance to buy back her masters, but has since secured complete ownership of her discography.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
  • Crow-Armstrong has been crafty on the base paths, recording 21 steals on 27 attempts.
    — Data Skrive, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of recording
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  • How To Clean Cotton/Jersey Gardening Gloves Cotton makes a good all-purpose glove for raking leaves and tidying your yard.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
  • Then comes raking the clippings, bagging them up, and hauling them to the garbage.
    — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 7 June 2026
Definition of raking
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  • The savviest travelers are already booking the back half of the year.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • For guests who want to use the facilities without booking a treatment, day passes are available.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
Definition of booking
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  • The lawsuit rounds out its fact-finding with a spreadsheet, cataloging the regulatory differences between public schools and choice models.
    — Tiffany Thenor, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • This outpost from the same family of Central and Kjolle fame—renowned for both cataloguing and reimagining obscure ingredients found throughout various altitudes of Peru—has become the home base for their culinary research arm, Mater Iniciativa.
    — Paola Miglio, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2026
Definition of cataloging
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  • The 2015 staff report recommended indexing the thresholds to inflation on a go-forward basis.
    — Matt Stephens, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Definition of indexing
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  • Legislators passed a law two years ago that set that deadline, but then failed to find a replacement for tabulating votes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • That’s 10 years of farming around idle pump jacks and tabulating acres damaged by fluid leaks.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
Definition of tabulating
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