stamping

verb

present participle of stamp
1
as in shuffling
to move heavily or clumsily stamping around in oversized boots

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2
as in stomping
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure stamped the grass down in a circle

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Recent Examples of stamping When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026 That car became a rally staple, training a generation of drivers, including the French legend Jean Ragnotti, and stamping its double white stripe into motorsport folklore. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026 This metal punch press mold functions like slices of bread in a sandwich, stamping hot plastic sheets into lightweight thermoplastic aircraft doors. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026 Sy — whose own fingers are bruised from stamping metal at a factory on the overnight shift — estimates that 90% of those who arrived with him are working now. — Claire Galofaro, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 Twenty-nine European countries, including France, Spain, and Greece, have implemented the entry-exit system (EES) that replaces manual passport stamping with biometric checks. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 12 Aug. 2026 In place of painting on roses and covering them with chrome, consider stamping gold stickers on the center of each nail for professional-looking DIY nail art in minutes. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 4 Aug. 2026 In celebrating the players who are not afraid to take risks, and taking time to nurture the rough diamonds at the club, the tour is the first step in De Zerbi stamping his footprint on a club that had lost its way in recent years. — Elias Burke, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stamping
  1. shuffling
  2. stomping
  3. stumbling
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  • The Current traded away some assets while shuffling stars like Michelle Cooper, Temwa Chawinga and Lorena in and out of the lineup.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
  • And for a quarterback whose superpower involves shuffling through collapsing pockets, scrambling through squalor, throwing off any and every platform — such a question was warranted.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffling
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  • But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The answer isn’t between stomping the gas pedal or leaving the car parked.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of stomping
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  • Resendiz finished strongly, sending Mazoudier stumbling backward in the final minute.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Not everybody getting off the ride, stumbling to see their picture on the wall, agrees that the thrills were worth the chills.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of stumbling

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“Stamping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stamping. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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