Used in a Sentence

curating

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for curating.

Editorial note

Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, There's not even that much curating needed with modern storage capacity.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

An assistant rector or vicar.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of curating gathered in one view.

noun

An assistant rector or vicar.

noun

A parish priest.

verb

(transitive) To act as a curator for.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for curating.

noun

An assistant rector or vicar.

noun

A parish priest.

verb

(transitive) To act as a curator for.

verb

(by extension, transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.

Example sentences

1

Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, There's not even that much curating needed with modern storage capacity.

2

Are you two curating stories and aggregating them into a big topical feed, or doing content generation yourselves?

3

If you were willing to spend some time in curating the homepage then you could do even better.

4

Strongly recommending you find some people who're interested in curating and whom you trust to make good decisions.

5

People themselves should be the ones curating what they see, not faceless administrators secretly making judgment calls using unwritten policies.

6

Recognizing, managing, curating, and killing technical debt is something that only comes with experience.

7

Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, but the reward is a far more permanent collection of music and playlists which acts almost as a time capsule for your emotions.

8

They don't want to be the people in charge of curating and censoring information because they feel that this process can become politicized.

9

Maybe in the end we'll all be curating high quality blog posts, from people who aren't paid by views?

10

Corporations have been arrogantly curating music for a century now.

11

The idea of curating people is nauseating to me.

12

I think all frequent HN readers should contribute some time curating new stories -- don't spend all your time on the front page.

Quote examples

1

So, curating people--or whatever other term you want to use for "picking your roommates carefully"--is damned important, and always has been.

2

I guess it depends what "curating" means.

3

Personally, "considered harmful" is in the "meh" category for me, but I'm not curating HN articles, nor is any other individual.

4

I'm much more inclined to think "why this" when given an algorithmic recommendation, trying to reverse engineer it, instead of trusting a person's taste in curating a selection based on much broader criteria.

Proper noun examples

1

Curating a bunch of pictures doesn't sound like fun to me (I'm sure that's just me though), so I'll probably never do it, so setting a username for that seems like extra friction.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use curating in a sentence?

Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, There's not even that much curating needed with modern storage capacity.

What does curating mean?

An assistant rector or vicar.

What part of speech is curating?

curating is commonly used as noun, verb.