- present participle of group.
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Brazil is an active member of the Brics - a grouping that unites Brazil with Russia, India, China and South Africa.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The New York-Jersey City-White Plains division similarly is another grouping within the larger metro area.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the other camp, but also without a clear majority, is a grouping of parties opposed to the AfD -- the CDU, centre-left SPD, Greens and the far-left Die Linke.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Almost all of July’s rise in orders was down to larger orders of transport equipment, a grouping of goods that includes aircraft, ships, trains and military vehicles, Destatis said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Dingiswayo developed a superior centralized military organization by drafting young men from all villages and grouping them into regiments by age rather than by their village.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
Ultimately, the company believes that after it gets through this transition, the new age groupings will increase social activity.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
But the difficulties that linguists have in agreeing on groupings of Native American languages reflect the difficulties that complex Native American societies themselves faced in expanding within the New World.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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