- present participle of pair.
pairing
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Management reiterated its value over volume approach, pairing portfolio and pricing actions with a cost-savings program and a leaner, more agile operating model, analysts Jose M Asumendi and Piyush Singla write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Dancing With the Stars” pro Witney Carson on Wednesday shut down rumors that she wants her celebrity pairing to be voted off the new season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The pairing of a promising new drug with Zepbound was highly effective in a mid-stage clinical trial but also led to more side effects than expected, Lilly announced Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
One year after the death of Giorgio Armani, his brand's designs are pairing traditional elegance with crystals and sequins for the spring-summer collection presented on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Always pairing adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine meant that the base sequences of the two intertwined chains were complementary to each other.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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Chelsea feature in six of the 10 busiest club pairings, illustrating the scale of their player trading since the BlueCo consortium completed its takeover.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
All four doubles specialist pairings lost to a team of singles players on Tuesday, while Alcaraz and Williams fell in the quarter-finals.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
People make a bigger deal out of wine-and-food pairings than they need to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Tomato and soy are one of those quietly brilliant flavor pairings that seem to pop up everywhere once you start looking for them.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
While there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are 676 possible pairings, and the meaning of each letter in a digraph depends on how it is paired.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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