chaining

present participle of chain

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chaining An agent spends at machine speed, retrying, looping and chaining calls without supervision on the AI meter. — Prashant Jalan, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Given the new realities of the AI age, including the chaining capabilities, companies like Microsoft might need to rethink their entire approach to triage, said Nguyen, the NSA’s former AI chief. — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 29 July 2026 Interestingly, the modular design allows operators to rapidly assemble, connect, and scale up their power capacity by stacking or chaining additional units. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 May 2026 In response, Thomas Boggs, a drummer for The Box Tops, staged a 48-hour protest, Wilson said, chaining himself to the stage and playing music. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 15 May 2026 The new generation is faster, more autonomous, and more capable of chaining decisions together without a human checkpoint between them. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 May 2026 Real conservation doesn’t mean chaining yourself to a tree, throwing soup at paintings or screaming at people on social media. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026 Mythos is not simply good at finding vulnerabilities, Graham said, but also at chaining them together into complicated exploits that can be devastating hacking tools. — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026 Daisy chaining of multiple monitors is one way to increase screen area. — Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaining
Verb
  • Indeed, earlier this year the EU created a legally binding 2040 emissions reduction target.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • That binding — along with effects similar to opioid drugs such as heroin, oxycodone or fentanyl — makes kratom an opioid-like drug, though its biological effects are weaker than those of typical opioids.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Bernina Express is a famous red scenic train connecting Tirano in Italy to Saint Moritz along a UNESCO World Heritage Site route.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The prolific and acclaimed writer and activist used his liberal beliefs and his agrarian roots in Kentucky to craft novels, poems and essays connecting the natural world to humankind.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Trump is leaning into transactional politics by tying his administration directly to economic benefits in states that could determine control of Congress.
    — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Other fans criticized Clark for celebrating at a concert only hours after missing a potential game-tying shot in Indiana’s loss.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • For the project Winter and her team tired coupling plasma with electrocatalysis.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The authors of the Nature Energy paper found a way around that obstacle by coupling two ultra-thin nickel-titanium films.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Police officers can be seen handcuffing and arresting a man in video footage from OnScene.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • On the other side of the car, another ICE agent was restraining Salgado against the ground, handcuffing him.
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Turbah sits on a main road linking the provincial capital of Taiz with the port city of Aden, which serves as an interim seat of Yemen's government.
    — AHMED AL-HAJ, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In an August 2024 letter first reported by Semafor, editorial staff said OpenAI was hallucinating Atlantic stories and linking to aggregation of the publication’s reporting.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • If youth teams practiced like the pros, confining full contact to once a week, impacts could fall by more than half, Daneshvar says.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In December 2025, non-profit Amnesty International wrote in a report that confining men in small cages exposed to the elements could constitute torture under international law.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • By then, Meta had begun integrating Manus' team and technology into its own.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The message comes following Tuesday morning’s memo from David Ellison, chairman and CEO, and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, which acknowledged that layoffs will be part of the process of integrating the two companies.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

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“Chaining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaining. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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