cached

verb

past tense of cache
1
as in stored
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place an eccentric who cached money in odd places, such as under the boards of the floor

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2
as in buried
to put into a hiding place cached the fugitives in their cellar until they could make their way to Canada

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Recent Examples of cached For example, re-reading the same context, re-running the same retrieval, and re-generating answers that could have been cached, embedded or pre-computed. — Sumeet Agrawal, Fortune, 20 July 2026 This Mars Sample Return project was well underway, with specimens cached on Mars ready for retrieval, but is now in limbo because of budget cuts. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 June 2026 There was also a supply of gas cached at the campsite. — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026 The data on genomes that are cached in the museum will be open-sourced, providing researchers and geneticists around the world with information on all 10,000 species, in pursuit of conservation or de-extinction projects similar to what Colossal achieved with the dire wolf. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 Feb. 2026 The team cached model weights on network file storage rather than downloading them from external repositories, reducing model loading time by 10-15%. — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026 This prevents session hijacking if the system keeps tokens cached. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cached
  1. stored
  2. buried
  3. stashed
  4. concealed
Verb
  • In other words, Ray-Ban Meta glasses take photos and record video, which is stored on your phone.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Culver City voted last month to set rules around robotaxi fleet services that dictate where and when the vehicles can be charged, stored and cleaned.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • In the series, a young man buried in debt takes a part-time job paying 50 times the minimum wage, at a staffing agency where every shift could kill him.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The inspiration buried here is that, if nothing else, the Gators adjusted.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of buried
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  • The bar is lower than the basement room Luann got stashed in at Ramona’s Hamptons house.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In previous court filings, prosecutors said Rush stashed roughly $46 million worth of gold bars from the federal government at his Virginia home.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stashed
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  • This sonic machine—a pneumatic system operated by wind and air—is partially concealed inside walls.
    — Thomas Patier, Artforum, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Villarreal Ortiz obtained permanent residence by falsely identifying his aunt, a naturalized American citizen, as his mother and later concealed that deception when applying for citizenship, prosecutors say.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of concealed

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“Cached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cached. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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