as in list
a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system
an alphabetical listing of all of the students currently enrolled in the school
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as in uneven
inclined or twisted to one side
the listing battleship limped back to port for repairs
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as in leaning
running in a slanting direction
the listing lines of a poem scrawled on a chalkboard
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as in inventorying
to make a list of
the coach listed the people on the team
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as in entering
to put (someone or something) on a list
her number isn't listed in the phone book
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as in enrolling
to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member
our grandfather is listed among the war dead honored by the memorial
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as in reciting
to specify one after another
do I need to list all of the reasons why your idea won't work?
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as in sloping
to set or cause to be at an angle
the sudden shift of the load in the hull listed the ship badly
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Recent Examples of listing
Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing listing of local in-person events and online activities.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2024
Post-pandemic, the market favored buyers who could easily give cash offers or offers well over the asking price in the immediate days after listing.
—Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2024
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Mecum’s listing doesn’t list an estimate, but a seven-figure gavel price seems like.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing listing of local in-person events and online activities.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
The rule proposes listing the migrant butterfly as a threatened species.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2024
Post-pandemic, the market favored buyers who could easily give cash offers or offers well over the asking price in the immediate days after listing.
—Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2024
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No matter your sport of choice, this list has the outdoor gear tailored to your winter pursuits.Christopher Murray, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Even its close variant, Shea, hasn’t cracked the SSA’s list since 2008.Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025
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But the junior point guard has had an uneven transition.Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025
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Since this type of coating has an uneven texture, the bath mat may wear out faster than other options.Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
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The six-year veteran battled ankle and hip injuries during the regular season and when an oblique injury held him out in the wild-card round, Salyer especially struggled in his place.Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
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Erickson, Stiller and production designer Jeremy Hindle have a knack for building setups that riff on corporations’ uncanny, infantilizing methods of control, yet feel more oblique and mysterious than straight satire.Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Jan. 2025
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And though a second, thick stucco layer with bits of cork was an insulation novelty imported from Italy, its properties meant that the walls could remain authentically crooked.Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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What he’s actually done is fake his death to create a template for a new life by stealing $90 million from a client of his crooked law firm.Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
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If the data used to train these models are flawed or incomplete, the resulting digital agents can produce skewed results, leading to unfair or harmful outcomes.Tim Houlne, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s fondness for tariffs is connected to a skewed sense of American history.Einav Rabinovitch-Fox / Made by History, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
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In one, five women in white hanbok, carrying bundles of white laundry on their heads, form a tight, diagonal spiral (in response to gusts of wind?) against dark fields of grass and cropland.E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
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It’s fitted at the bodice and has a looser skirt with a ruffle along the diagonal slit.Isabel Garcia, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Listing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listing. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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