Thesaurus results for STANDINGS

standings

noun

plural of standing

as in durations

the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress a tradition of long standing

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as in ranks

the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement my standing in the class at the time of graduation

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Recent Examples of standings The Aces are third in the WNBA standings, a half-game ahead of the Dream with the tiebreaker. — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2026 Sporting Kansas City is stuck at the bottom of the standings during a rebuilding year. — Pj Green august 28, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026 The Pride is 4-4-3 all-time against the Royals, who are fourth in the standings and coming off a 4-2 loss to San Diego last week. — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026 Miami doesn’t play either team this season, but with the way the conference’s standings unfolded last season, every game has a chance to impact who makes it to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the conference title game in December. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 This year, despite all of the injuries, Hartford sits in eighth in the USL Eastern Conference standings and is the only team from last season’s Cup semifinals to reach that round again. — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2026 The top eight teams in the final standings go direct to the round of 16 in March. — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026 The Sparks are 13-25, behind the expansion Portland Fire in the standings and having lost twice to the expansion Toronto Tempo. — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 After ceding its lead, first to Red Bull and then to McLaren, his team is atop the standings again and favored to win the 2026 season. — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2026

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Noun

People could experience long durations of high temperatures with little to no overnight relief from the swelter.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2026
This approach isn’t all that different from last year for the fourth-year quarterback; Young played for varying durations in two of the Panthers’ three preseason contests in 2025.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of durations

Noun

The team also traded away Luis Arraez and Heliot Ramos for prospects, further thinning their ranks.

— Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon join the ranks of iconic observatories like the Hubble and James Webb telescopes – plumbing the far reaches of the cosmos to answer some of life's greatest mysteries.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of ranks

Noun

Winter Springs was whistled for 14 penalties for 135 yards, and Hagerty was flagged 12 times for 125 yards.

— Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2026
The Cubs and Brewers square off seven times in that span, with Monday’s victory putting the North Siders 7 games back of first-place Milwaukee.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of times

Noun

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 both closed at their lowest levels in nearly two weeks.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Biden raised troop levels there to about 100,000, backed by seven fighter squadrons, six destroyers, and roughly 100 nuclear gravity bombs.

— JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of levels

Noun

Anedda’s way of capturing different moments from different linguistic or interpretive points of view allows the everyday elements of our lives to find space in poetry, democratically.

— Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
During their reign in Hollywood’s Golden Age, their lives and cinematic work played out ideals about femininity and its expectations in American culture writ large.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of lives

Noun

The viral beverage is based on a traditional Chinese tea recipe made with jujube dates and ginger.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
For his part, Breen says that both dates are false and that the yearbook picture (which bears a striking resemblance to him) is a different person.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of dates

Noun

Those positions remain in flux and negotiations between Assembly members, state senators and Newsom are ongoing, Assembly Natural Resources Committee Chair Isaac Bryan, D-Jefferson Park, said.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
The precedent for what happens when that capital moves quickly is March 2020, when a rapid unwind of leveraged positions contributed to a breakdown of Treasury-market liquidity severe enough to require Federal Reserve intervention.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

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