cluttering

verb

Definition of clutteringnext
present participle of clutter
1
as in clogging

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2
as in jumbling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cluttering
  1. filling
  2. disrupting
  3. burdening
  4. piling
  5. shuffling
  6. loading
  7. scrambling
Verb
  • Taurean Prince is the kind of player that championship contenders crave—low-maintenance, effective, and capable of filling gaps without demanding the ball.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The emotions and uprooting ignited the need to write at a feverish pace, filling the pages of notebooks with poems to let those feelings out.
    Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of filling
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  • Russian shelling has severely damaged two water facilities in northern Donetsk, disrupting the water supply for about 260,000 residents.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The 50,000 members of the union working at ports from Maine to Texas have been on strike since early Tuesday morning, halting the flow of the majority of containerized imports into the United States, along with many of the exports, disrupting the sales of American businesses overseas.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of disrupting
Verb
  • Confession might ease your mind but at the expense of burdening another.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Babin is chair of the space and aeronautics subcommittee and has conducted CHIPS and Science Act oversight hearings where he's warned against burdening local governments and industry partners with cumbersome regulations and paperwork.
    Maria Curi, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of burdening
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  • That might look like doing the dishes, going for a quick jog, or sorting through unread emails piling up in your inbox.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Even piling tanks high with jammers can fail to stop drones destroying them.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of piling
Verb
  • Honorable Mentions My Top Five stays the same as my recent mid-September update, but there was shuffling from #6-10 down the home stretch.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, storm survivors were still scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter three days after Helene first made landfall in Florida.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of shuffling
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  • Making mobile security fun may be more important to some than loading up on features that may not get used.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Witnesses saw Thomas dragging a tarp down the stairs of his apartment complex and loading it into Abraham’s vehicle, according to the affidavit.
    Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of loading
Verb
  • Le Roux is among 21 unaccounted for residents in the county search and rescue crews are scrambling to locate.
    Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • For Starbucks, which buys 3% of the world’s coffee, the shortages can mean scrambling to find Arabica beans — and higher prices for its customers.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of scrambling
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