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noun

as in informing

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verb

present participle of apprise
as in advising
to give information to let me apprise you of the current situation

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Recent Examples of apprising
Verb
The White House team is required to file a report apprising the court of the status of their compliance within 21 days after the date the order takes effect. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apprising
  1. notification
  2. informing
  3. notifying
  4. advising
  5. telling
  6. instructing
Noun
  • The victim’s name is being withheld pending family notification.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 11 July 2026
  • The name of the operator was not released at this time so that notifications could be made.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
Definition of notification
Verb
  • Financing On Saturday, the NFL sent a memo to the other 31 teams informing their leadership about the deal.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026
  • Khalra’s investigation alleged that thousands of people who had disappeared were cremated anonymously by police without informing their families or maintaining official records.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of informing
Noun
  • But at Disneyland on Friday, vacationers in matching T-shirts, toddlers in princess dresses and mouse-eared parents pushing strollers made their way through security checkpoints giving little attention to signs posted nearby notifying guests of the theme park’s new facial recognition policy.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • However, in the immediate aftermath of a spouse’s death, priorities should be limited to the essentials, Cox said — such as ensuring access to cash, notifying institutions, paying ongoing bills and claiming benefits (from, say, life insurance).
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2026
Definition of notifying
Verb
  • Dan Schnur, a former Republican turned independent and politics professor at several California universities, is advising More Choice.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
  • Regional airlines have mostly recovered to pre-conflict capacity levels, but the EU’s aviation watchdog issued a fresh warning advising airlines to avoid airspace over much of the region.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of advising
Verb
  • Curator Nadine Hounkpatin, who organized the wider exhibition at Arles in which Phan’s images appear, has said that the body of work illustrates the kind of deeper truth-telling photography can do.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • Anna Maria says the Church had put him up for adoption without telling her.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 12 July 2026
Definition of telling
Verb
  • For weeks Donnie had been sending her money, and instructing her to deposit it into the nanny’s account.
    — Juliet Linderman, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Lagos shared that many athletic directors in her section are often teachers who take on the role of instructing students and then doing the full administrative labor required to help teams cycle through their schedules.
    — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 14 July 2026
Definition of instructing

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