as in preparing
to make ready in advance
the hotel's penthouse suite is being groomed for a royal visit
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Recent Examples of grooming
Repression, self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, jealousy, emotional abuse, and even allusions to grooming, among other terrors of the fog, keep the tensions high from start to finish.
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Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Immediately, Mama Skunk takes the little kitten under her care, grooming him and feeding him like one of hers, despite their different DNA.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Maxwell, a former British socialite who had been accused of procuring and grooming underage girls for Epstein’s abuse, fascinated Kraus.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The star’s grooming routine is no fuss.
—Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Replit is pioneering multiplayer AI development, and Task-Master-AI automates entire dev workflows—from backlog grooming to pull requests.
—Paul Kovalenko, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The top-floor primary suite faces the water with a fireplace, a sitting area that spills onto a slender balcony, and a spectacular bathroom that turns bathing and grooming into a ceremony.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
The move comes amid recent lawsuits filed against Roblox regarding its child safety regulations and accusations of grooming behavior experienced on the platform.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Once inside the estate, in the massage room, in his bedroom, Wild said Epstein was grooming and controlling.
—Randi Kaye, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grooming
preparing
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The Broncos were without timeouts, so Nix was preparing to get in position to clock the ball and give Wil Lutz a field-goal attempt.—
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Virginia’s large population of federal workers is preparing for major disruption.—
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“Grooming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grooming. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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