chunking
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing chunking
Psychology
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He can lash out unintentionally, so staff use a "chunking" technique where they concentrate learning into small segments of five minutes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
But that’s how those games go, where you just keep chunking yardage and finding ways to get completions.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
The presentation was on a concept called periodization: the chunking of history into different periods.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2021
The benefit of "chunking" all of your goals into subgoals is that you can give yourself a pat on the back for each, which will make the next feel more manageable.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2021
I heard a chain sing from getting pulled taut and the bear-fighting dog’s paws hit me square in the side so strong that the last two chunking stones flewed out of my hand.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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