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as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
an array of baseball gloves in the corner of his room
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as in grouping
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
a motley array of travelers waiting for the bus
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as in attire
dressy clothing
dressed in festive array for the city's annual New Year's Eve celebration
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as in sequence
the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another
a marching band's carefully choreographed array
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as in to adorn
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
a door arrayed for the holidays with a beautiful evergreen wreath
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as in to clothe
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
arrayed in a wedding dress that has been handed down in the family for generations
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as in to classify
to put into a particular arrangement
arrayed his baseball cards in order of their rarity and consequent monetary value
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Recent Examples of array
Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2025
That’s because numbers are the language of mathematics, and mathematics provides an array of potent tools for analyzing trends and making predictions.
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
By the look of the scene inside—red Solo cups arrayed on a table in a large kitchen area—the authorities had broken up a game of beer pong.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The new program, Fanatics One, will reward users for activity across the company’s array of products, leaning on its own events, limited edition drops and network of prominent athletes to propagate a multi-tier offering.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2025
That’s because numbers are the language of mathematics, and mathematics provides an array of potent tools for analyzing trends and making predictions.
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
And the durian trees are arrayed up a slope with a little bit of altitude above sea level, but also a sea breeze.
—Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
By the look of the scene inside—red Solo cups arrayed on a table in a large kitchen area—the authorities had broken up a game of beer pong.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for array
Noun
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Researchers attributed them to a threat actor cluster tracked as UNC6040/UNC6240.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Local innovation clusters have already proven the merits of co-location as a tool to accelerate progress, with campuses such as Manchester’s Citylabs showing how this model is already working in practice.—
Kath Mackay,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Aug. 2025
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To begin with, all of them clustered together in a single block, although there were three distinct groupings within that block.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The young gentleman looked to be in his 20s and was wearing business attire.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
28 Aug. 2025
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Kelly Bensimon brings her best tennis attire to the USTA Foundation Opening Night Gala in N.Y.C. on Aug. 24.—
Brendan Le,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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After season one’s dance sequence became a sensation, did everybody feel a lot more pressure on the second one?—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 2025
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The payoff is a drolly whirligig centerpiece sequence in which their small apartment is suddenly swarming with Ashley’s boyfriends.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There is talk of Turkey building a military base in Syria to train and rebuild the capabilities of the Syrian army.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Habib Diallo, a 60-year-old former army commando, said attending the sermons and discussions with the imam taught him about the risks of home births.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The script adorns its skein of criminal dealings with idiosyncratic action, too.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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Six bedrooms and 10 baths are filtered across roughly 11,700 square feet, all of it adorned with antique heart pine floors, wavy glass windows, period fixtures, designer lighting, and numerous fireplaces, along with modern conveniences like smart-home technology and an elevator.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
21 Aug. 2025
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Scores of mourners clad in Maryvale High School's colors of black and gold gathered to memorialize Michael Montoya II, a 16-year-old student fatally stabbed in class, during a vigil at the Phoenix school.—
DAILY BRIEFING,
AZCentral.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Barely a hundred yards away at the foot of the hill, a pair of middle-aged white golfers clad in shorts and polo shirts wheeled their golf bags along a pristine fairway at the Ermelo Country Club.—
Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
23 Aug. 2025
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Gu classifies premium as cars over 40,000 Euros ($47,000).—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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For a region to be classified as in famine at least 20% of people must be suffering extreme food shortages, with one in three children acutely malnourished and two people out of every 10,000 dying daily from starvation or malnutrition and disease.—
Michelle Nichols,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Array.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/array. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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