- present participle of reserve.
Example Sentences
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Tesla also caters to retail investors in ways other companies don’t, reserving time for questions submitted by everyday investors on quarterly earnings calls and often inviting them to events.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Musk has talked about reserving as much as 30% of the shares for individual traders, according to Reuters External link, which cited people close to the matter.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Another holidaymaker said he had just recently returned from Antalya in Turkey where the dawn reserving of sun loungers with towels had "really taken the shine out of the holiday".
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Now, from reserving a tee time to maintaining fairways and greens to enjoying a beverage afterward, the whole game is being upended by artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
To clarify this point, I will often use the term ‘Sapiens’ to denote members of the species Homo sapiens, while reserving the term ‘human’ to refer to all extant members of the genus Homo.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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