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
  • The petitioners, primarily represented by Adam Pauley, responded in filing a document requesting the board to strike the objections.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • In 1981, after filing an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint, Shulman became a jumper.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of filing
Verb
  • Tips and calls are coming in and investigators are combing through other video, Saucier said.
    — Elise Hammond, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The videos show search crews combing the Pentagon's charred corridors, and interviews with firefighters working to contain the disaster.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of combing
Verb
  • The Honda continues down the street and crashes into a parked car, as Good’s wife, Becca Good, who was recording the altercation, runs after it.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Donald was one of the most dominant defensive lineman in NFL history during his 10 seasons with the Rams, recording 111 sacks, 24 forced fumbles and seven fumble recoveries.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of recording
Verb
  • Compost Fallen Leaves Instead of mowing, consider raking the fallen leaves into a compost pile.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Early-season rainstorms and cooling temperatures can help plants establish roots, meaning your outdoor fall to-do list isn’t limited to just raking leaves.
    — Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of raking
Verb
  • The staff is also quick to offer assistance in securing a reservation for dinner at Matilda or booking the wellness room, which has an infrared sauna facing the mountains and a small area with workout equipment.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Cost and clinical value are also worth weighing before booking a room-service drip.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of booking
Verb
  • Morris’s book focuses only on the representation of real animals; cataloguing mythic and hybrid creatures would take another volume entirely.
    — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • There was no indexing and cataloging in a professional archival way throughout this vault process.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of cataloging
Verb
  • The Social Security Administration calculates your retirement benefits by reviewing your lifetime earnings and indexing your highest 35 years of earnings to wage growth to produce an Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME).
    — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 21 July 2026
  • The 2015 staff report recommended indexing the thresholds to inflation on a go-forward basis.
    — Matt Stephens, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of indexing
Verb
  • What turned out to be a razor-thin contest wasn’t called by the Associated Press until early Wednesday morning, after a delay in tabulating votes from Milwaukee.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The recount board reconvened Thursday morning, July 9, to begin tabulating runoff Election Day results.
    — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026
Definition of tabulating
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“Carding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carding. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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