indenting

verb

present participle of indent
as in notching

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  1. carving
  2. grooving
  3. sculpting
  4. chiseling
  5. tracing
Verb
  • In addition to addressing the corporate tax credit cap, lawmakers had also turned attention toward carving out a post-production incentive despite a very tight budget year.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026
  • After the factory closed in 1967, its new owners began carving the sprawling industrial complex into artist studios.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of carving
Verb
  • Speirs began moving and grooving between innings, choreographing dances for each player’s walk-up song.
    — Abigail Dollins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026
  • One of the video's most memorable sequences features Madonna grooving to the dance-pop track while riding a gondola.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of grooving
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  • The extra-high waist acts like a waist cincher attached to a pair of shorts, pulling in the midsection and sculpting the hips into an hourglass silhouette.
    — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2026
  • As part of our Move with Me series, Lapman took us through a quick full-body sculpting workout using only resistance bands.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of sculpting
Verb
  • The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Moyes knows this squad well, both its strengths and weaknesses, and has become adept at chiselling out points on his travels.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of chiseling
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  • Guests can borrow cruiser bikes to ride along the 19-mile bike path tracing Lake Superior’s shoreline.
    — Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Norway’s monarchy has old roots, tracing its origins to King Harald Fairhair in the ninth century.
    — Jan M. Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of tracing
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“Indenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indenting. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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