attending (to)

verb

Definition of attending (to)next
present participle of attend (to)
1
as in ministering (to)

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2
as in picking out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attending (to)
  1. setting up
  2. making out
  3. marking
  4. considering
  5. identifying
Verb
  • Temperatures will cool on Friday, setting up the winter weather chances for Friday and Saturday.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Russia agreed last month to resume three-way negotiations with Washington and Kyiv aimed at ending the war, setting up the first such talks since February.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of setting up
Verb
  • But Turek knows the race against Hinson is making out to be one of the most competitive Senate contests in the country.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Likewise, this season, dancers making out at Diesel made spectators part of the performance.
    — Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of making out
Verb
  • In between — and during — history and math assignments, Calderon cultivated his skill set, becoming part of the program’s inaugural class that matriculated in June, marking the first full four-year cohort to finish.
    — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
  • This year, Veterans Day falls on Wednesday, November 11, and restaurants and attractions across the United States are marking the occasion with free meals, drinks, discounts and other offers for veterans and military members.
    — Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of marking
Verb
  • In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that Tesla was considering a sale or spinoff of its China operations.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The Andersons are considering funding another major investigative endeavor for next year and are hoping to find some partners.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of considering
Verb
  • OpenAI said the partnership would bring different expertise and approaches to identifying weaknesses.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
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“Attending (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attending%20%28to%29. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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