baring

present participle of bare

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of baring And while certainly showstopping from the front, especially with its deep, cleavage-baring portrait neckline, the dress was even more attention-grabbing from the back with its open silhouette. Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025 Kelly has made a career of baring his soul in his music, but never quite like this. Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025 Before baring his claws in Bon Temps, the actor was Peter Parker’s bully, football star Flash Thompson, in Spider-Man (2002). Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025 The stiletto heel, measuring around 5 inches, provided a drastic boost in height, while the ankle-baring hemlines added drama to the shoe. Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025 Former first lady Michelle Obama baring her arms in sleeveless dresses caused uproar in some corners of the internet, while others aspired to her toned arms. Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025 Low-rise styles—particularly the provocative, butt-baring designs from Diesel, Dsquared2 and Duran Lantink—are redefining the standard for how much flesh is revealed. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Sep. 2025 Twigs’ torso-baring bandeau top, meanwhile, perfectly framed her artful hair between padded shoulders. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025 Discovering a fang-baring fish-woman (Avery Potemri, a movement artist playing an impressive special effect), Doug tranquilizes the creature and houses it in his bathroom, rejuvenated by his newfound purpose. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baring
Verb
  • Biden, 82, first disclosed his cancer diagnosis in May, revealing that the disease had spread to his bones.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Even if devices are turned off, the system can generate information from other active WiFi devices in the environment, revealing presence and movement without consent.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • None of this requires disclosing the weights or the particular data that gave the model its power.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Chalamet then joined his director onstage to introduce the film, disclosing a personal connection to the evening.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Harris Teeter, based in North Carolina, initiated a voluntary recall of its Cinnamon Texas Toast and Asiago Texas Toast on September 11 after discovering that cheese and butter - which contain milk - were not listed as ingredients.
    News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Joel really took a kick from, quote unquote, discovering, quote unquote, new actors or actors who had been unseen in films.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, Arsenal’s 3-2 Women’s Super League (WSL) defeat by Manchester City over the weekend extended Arsenal’s winless run to three matches, dropping them to fifth in the WSL table and further exposing flaws in defensive solidity and execution in the final third.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Their job was to guide (and smuggle) me through the tribal areas of the country, exposing me to places where visitors, especially Americans, were officially forbidden.
    Kaitlin Stevens, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Your answer to that can also be telling.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Veronica Ewers said nothing, despite all the signs, despite the blood test results staring back at her, telling her the hormones in her body were barely present.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some of the galaxies shown in this collage were already captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, but the James Webb Space Telescope shows them in greater detail, uncovering new clues about gravitational lensing.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Many of us journalists enter this industry with lofty ideals about uncovering truth and holding power accountable.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Baring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baring. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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