- present participle of group.
grouping
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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 average pay for a starting specialist—a positional grouping comprising mostly kickers and punters—in a Power Four football conference this season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
On this, members are likely to agree: none will want the grouping dismissed as merely a "talk shop".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Granted, it’s by definition not the most diversified grouping, but right now it’s a way to ride the AI trade without worrying much about what the U.S. or Iran will do next.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Each grouping of symbols represented a certain number of stones that had been moved on the abacus, and like each column of the abacus, each grouping had a different value, depending on its position.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
The implications are alarming, since there currently are four industry groupings within the S&P 1,500 index that have trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Ultimately, the company believes that after it gets through this transition, the new age groupings will increase social activity.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
But the difficulties that linguists have in agreeing on groupings of Native American languages reflect the difficulties that complex Native American societies themselves faced in expanding within the New World.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
