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  • present participle of group.
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grouping

[groo-ping] / ˈgru pɪŋ /


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For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The smaller Newark, N.J., metropolitan division is a grouping within the larger metro area.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

"There are countries in the grouping which would like it to become anti-western, but it is not that," says Anil Trigunayat, a veteran Indian diplomat and former ambassador.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The average starting specialist—a positional grouping comprising mostly kickers and punters—in a Power Four conference is making $225,000 this season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The system he used, while not as flexible or sophisticated as the one used today, relied on the grouping together of notes with horizontal bars called ligatures.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The WTO said that economic activity would shrink significantly if world trade were to splinter into geopolitical blocs or regional groupings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

In this ruling, the court's justices divided into familiar groupings.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Critics of the change say this risks flattening meaningful distinctions between religious identities, particularly for service members whose beliefs do not fall neatly into major denominational groupings.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

The implications are alarming, since there currently are four industry groupings within the S&P 1,500 index that have trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

In the dozen or so photos in Google images, mostly head shots of Sarah with her violin and Rotary award ceremony groupings, she is slim, like Vivian, with an alert, guarded expression.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline




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