- present participle of paste.
pasting
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Doctors, nurses and patients were pasting reflective sheets onto the windows to keep out the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Workers at the Pyroshine factory were now busy pasting wolf-themed packaging onto boxes to be shipped to the United States.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
There is hope in senior circles that the review, together with big infrastructure plans, can be used to create a summer of good news, after many months of taking a pasting.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
There’s no sense in copying a sentence from every paragraph and pasting them together at the end.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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