KEYING Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

keying

verb

present participle of key

as in reconciling

to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences her response was perfectly keyed to the situation

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Recent Examples of keying Elke and Alysia started seeing the big bugs fluttering around in late April, and as their numbers grew through early May, the native rainbows started keying in on them more and more. —

Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026 Jordan Staal and Andrei Svechnikov scored on the power play and Jalen Chatfield added a short-handed goal, keying a special teams effort that helped the Carolina Hurricanes win their seventh straight playoff game, 4-1 over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 3 on Thursday night. —

CBS News, 8 May 2026 Girard is undersized at 5-foot-10, but is still adept at keying his teams in transition and controlling the game at five-on-five. —

Thomas Drance, New York Times, 1 May 2026 In theory, keying in on the Huskies’ duo of first team All-Americans was a wise strategy. —

Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026 Jónsdóttir’s goal certainly changed that, keying the second-half revival and come-from-behind win. —

Damian Calhoun, Daily News, 28 Mar. 2026 Maye willingness to spread the ball around to players like Williams (four catches before Monday night) prevented the Giants from effectively keying in on Stefon Diggs, as the Bengals did a week earlier, and helped the Pats exploit their best matchups on a down-to-down basis. —

Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2025 Collision Guy’s going to be keying off the cost of local labor to staff his garages as well as the prices and availability of auto parts and tools. —

Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025 Gomes also expresses that rather than keying in on the designers that Talley had a longstanding relationship with within an exhibit, settling on a larger theme, the breadth of experiences, clothing, images, stories, and also paraphernalia associated with Talley was more worthwhile. —

Essence, 4 Nov. 2025

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The actor points specifically to the season 22 finale, in which Owen saves a family during a catastrophic bridge collapse before reconciling with Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) and leaving Seattle for Paris.

— Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
As the pace of disruption continues to grow, the writing is on the wall for organizations still battling with bottlenecks, searching through spreadsheets, reconciling conflicting data or waiting on manual approvals before responding to global crises.

— Alex Saric, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026