aerating

Definition of aeratingnext
present participle of aerate
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Verb
  • While Univision will continue to feature the highly dramatic telenovelas for which it is best known, the network is augmenting its schedule in areas that are certain to draw broader crowds, including sports.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • Semafor’s journalists helped fill in the gaps by augmenting the readout with reporting that wasn’t captured in the transcript.
    Gina Chua, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • James Ward During the debate, Republican candidate Steve Hilton said that only a small percentage of California has been developed for housing, arguing that the state should focus on building homes on undeveloped land rather than increasing density in existing cities.
    James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Doing so compresses the light reflected from the plasma, thereby increasing its intensity.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • Ralph later renovated the property by raising the roofline and enlarging the terraces and windows to better frame the water views.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 May 2026
  • The company is enlarging the dimensions of the search box to expand and better accommodate the natural language queries that users can now make with AI.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • Anthropic also warned that highly capable AI models could dramatically improve offensive cyber operations by accelerating vulnerability discovery and attack planning.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
  • New research points to a mechanism within the Cascadia fault that could be accelerating a break.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • The Looking Out Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by Brandi Carlile which has supported humanitarian causes for over two decades – amplifying the impact of music by awarding grants, engaging community, and creating powerful partnerships.
    Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Qubits can take on multiple values simultaneously and become entangled with one another, amplifying their power.
    Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • The formula generally estimates the cost of UBI by multiplying the number of citizens and lawful permanent citizens and lawful permanent residents (314 million) by the amount of the payment ($6,000 per person per year).
    Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Indeed, over the past several months, the Islamic Republic has responded to pressure not by simplifying its structure of authority, but by multiplying and obscuring the channels through which authority is exercised.
    Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • With revenue-sharing challenges mounting across college athletics — and some schools already cutting sports — expanding the playoff has become a potential financial lifeline.
    Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • According to Abbott's office, the Texas Department of Public Safety is immediately expanding the Texas Repeat Offender Taskforce to the Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin metropolitan areas.
    Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • Eveningside’s smaller arms holding on to the chains while Morningside’s longer arms propelled them, her fists and excess joints braced against the ground; their span lengthening, extending and retracting in the girls’ to and fro.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Climate change is lengthening that season.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
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“Aerating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aerating. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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