typing

verb

present participle of type
as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type type the birds by geographical range

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Recent Examples of typing In the decades since touchscreen keyboards became universal, plenty still mourn the sublime experience of typing on clacky BlackBerrys. — Martin Cizmar, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Tech giants are preparing for a potential future in which people get things done by speaking or typing to AI agent rather than by operating apps and websites. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 For example, a user could reply to an iPhone text message by typing on an onscreen keyboard or using their voice to dictate a reply. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 People are increasingly asking questions instead of typing keywords. — Usman Ilyas, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 If malware steals an active login session, an attacker may be able to access an account without typing your password again. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Rules of Civility, Amor Towles A whip-smart Brooklyn girl from a working-class immigrant family, stationed in a Wall Street typing pool, meets a charming banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on the last night of 1937. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 But would an average person notice quicker input when typing an email with an optical keyboard? — ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026 The loneliness epidemic For young workers, the loneliness epidemic has meant building a career without face-to-face interactions, submitting resumes online blindly and typing up cover letters for nameless recruiters. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for typing
  1. classifying
  2. ranking
  3. grouping
  4. distinguishing
  5. sorting
  6. relegating
  7. grading
  8. placing
Verb
  • The software generates a score from zero to 100, classifying a patient as low, intermediate, or high risk.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of classifying
Verb
  • Piper Sandler's survey offered signs that Vans may finally be stabilizing — ranking as the seventh-most-popular footwear brand among male teens after years of sinking in the rankings and climbing to ninth among upper-income male teens.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • What’s Trending in the NFL, ranking the most controversial coaching decisions from the past week.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of ranking
Verb
  • Drying towels on their own rather than grouping them with other laundry items eliminates this issue.
    — Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In 2023, Canali debuted Care, an umbrella program grouping all the brand’s eco- and responsibility-minded initiatives.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of grouping
Verb
  • For Jekyll-Hyde, the costumes are crucial and add to the characterization, distinguishing the two men inhabiting the same body.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • For voters scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms, distinguishing between independent commentary and paid political advertising is becoming increasingly difficult.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of distinguishing
Verb
  • Its argument is that insurers have been pricing wildfire risk the wrong way, by looking backward at statistics and sorting homes by zip code.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Students are constantly running this calculation, sorting the people and institutions around them into who’s reliable and who isn’t.
    — Karl Mawhinney, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of sorting
Verb
  • Of course, other keyboard types were cheaper to produce, relegating Hall-effect keyboards to an afterthought for decades.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
  • However, relegating City to the second-tier Championship League would be a punishment that could hurt the rest of the league.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of relegating
Verb
  • Bulldozers were on site Friday as grading continues for the project on East McLelland Avenue between South Main Street and South Church Street.
    — Joe Marusak October 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Sports card shops and shows attract non-sports buyers and sellers, who rely on grading services for valuations and dealers for guidance and trends.
    — Bob Woods, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of grading
Verb
  • The presentation Monday night before the Plano city council revealed that widening some existing roads, adding new turn lanes to others and placing no parking signs in neighborhoods should address concerns about traffic among nearby homeowners.
    — J.D. Miles, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • By placing a fashion executive from PVH next to a global marketing executive from Coca-Cola and an independent visual artist, the house constructs a network of perspectives capable of sorting through complex challenges.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of placing

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“Typing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typing. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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