ORGANIZING Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

organizing

verb

present participle of organize

as in arranging

to put into a particular arrangement carefully organized the hotel's silverware by pattern

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as in planning

to work out the details of (something) in advance started organizing the anniversary party months in advance

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Recent Examples of organizing What was new was someone finally organizing it into something a nurse could use in sixty seconds in the chaos of a delivery room. — Stacy L. Hambleton, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026 This is strong energy for editing, organizing, asking clearly, or naming the next step. — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026 Amy Smith-Stewart, chief curator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, noticed that shift while organizing the museum’s inaugural decennial survey of artists living and working in Connecticut. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026 There are a lot of jobs that the only thing holding AI back from taking is that organizing the systems to achieve extreme reliability has been difficult. — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026 The top choice, Zone Tech’s Three-Pocket Mesh Storage Net, features multiple compartments for organizing your belongings. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026 The patient advocacy movement must transition from organizing around specific diagnoses. — Matthew Zachary, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2026 Tenants are organizing bill strikes and urging city officials to ban ratio utility billing systems, or RUBS. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 My generation has spent our lives marching, organizing and mourning. — Brittany Berlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026

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Paltrow is also friendly with OpenAI’s vice president of global creative partnerships, Charles Porch, who the Times reports was central to arranging the dinner in his boss’ honor.

— Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
Are practical barriers, such as transportation or arranging for care outside the facility, influencing the decision not to consider screening more than her own values or medical condition?

— Kim Johnson, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of arranging

Verb

Scenario planning moves from an annual event to a quarterly discipline.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
The festival will also open one day earlier than in previous years, on Tuesday, October 6, giving audiences greater flexibility in planning their visits and screenings.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of planning

Verb

The following conversation touches on Rock's latest project and process, writing young characters and classifying his own work into a genre.

— Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Edwards and Magee spent decades classifying them, and the most important distinction is between a breakaway gap and everything else.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of classifying

Verb

Gemini's agents can assist with contract review and redlining, legal and policy research, regulatory monitoring, drafting NDAs, preparing documents for redaction, creating contracting playbooks and handling data-subject access requests.

— Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Even as the justices were preparing to release their opinion, the postal service did in fact develop and release a new rule about mail-in voting.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of preparing

Verb

Odysseus ended up lashing himself to the mast and ordering his crew to plug their ears with wax.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Ezequiel ‘Wicked’ Romo reinvented Blythe Street as an enforcement arm for the Mexican Mafia, directing business and ordering murders from his prison cell.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of ordering

Verb

Others have discovered that designing an impressive concept and manufacturing a safe, reliable vehicle at scale are two very different challenges.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
Adam Mosseri was called to the stand on Tuesday as part of a 2026 federal trial against Meta in which 29 state attorneys accuse the company of designing its wares to addict minors.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

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