chunking
Britishnoun
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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
He said he was flinching on tee shots, chunking irons and his head was “in a terrible spot.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were chucking and chunking.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
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
The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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