toggling

verb

Definition of togglingnext
present participle of toggle
as in tying
to fasten with a device in which a small piece of wood, plastic, metal, etc. is pushed through a loop or hole toggled his duffel coat closed

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  1. tying
  2. clipping
  3. bending
Verb
  • That challenge is also led by Missouri, which made many of the same legal arguments tying its finances to MOHELA’s revenues.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Temperatures in Yuma, Arizona, reached 112 degrees Wednesday, tying the previous record, also set in 1980.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of tying
Verb
  • In reality, though, because the TCL’s tone mapping is not as effective as that of the Samsung TV, the TCL’s brightness can cause clipping and leave the image looking ‘peaky’ and unbalanced.
    John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Crowder has spent much of the past thirty-odd years clipping them into shape.
    Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of clipping
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  • Last year, the department paid a nearly $1-million settlement to a former police captain who alleged that he was fired after revealing that officers were routinely bending the corners of their badges to commemorate when an officer killed a civilian.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Maintaining a tall posture, descend into the single-legged squat by bending your front knee and dropping your back knee directly toward the floor beneath you.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of bending
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