anchoring
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anchoring
noun anchorings
- The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm. Stripped of its temporal anchorings, what remains of Geddes's thinking was its inactual or anachronic idealism, which often isolated him from his contemporaries […]
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The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving undue weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting an initial estimate of 20% to 30% when 90% would be more appropriate.
Similar: focalism
verb
- present participle and gerund of anchor
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: ground tackle, cast anchor, drop anchor, linchpin, ground, lynchpin, anchorman, anchorperson, mainstay, backbone, mooring, berthage, anchorage, berthing, berth, entrenchment
Talk about this word "anchoring." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/anchoring. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. anchoring. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/anchoring "anchoring." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/anchoring.Cite this
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title = {anchoring},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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