- present participle of group.
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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
On this, members are likely to agree: none will want the grouping dismissed as merely a "talk shop".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
At the sight of the new workers, the remaining strikers began clamoring in protest and grouping forward.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
"On the whole I see a positive trend in the operations of the troop groupings," Putin told army leaders Friday, dressed in military attire.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
But overall, the three groupings help to tell the tale of the market, they say.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 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
Most linguists specializing in Native American languages do not discern large, clear-cut groupings other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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