backing (up)

present participle of back (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for backing (up)
Verb
  • Options for intervention range from monitoring the person or hardening a target like a school, Amman said, or, in more extreme cases, invoking red flag laws or involuntarily committing someone.
    Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Wilson’s absolutist rhetoric makes nuanced immigration reform harder by alienating potential allies and hardening opposition.
    Letters to the Editor, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In one study, it was found that the disease triggered the development of sac-like molecules carrying blood-clotting proteins that increased stroke risk.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some patients' bodies continue to make the clotting gene for years after starting treatment.
    Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • By then, the fire had burned more than a thousand acres, and the winds were starting to whip; smoke blotted out the setting sun, and the power in the area was down.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • According to projections released last week, that’s almost a full percentage point lower than any of his 18 colleagues on the Fed’s rate-setting committee, an unusually high divergence.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Roger Hodgson, a posh young guitarist whose post-private school rearing clashed with Davies' own humble origins, wound up gelling with Davies, and Supertramp was born — after a few months under the moniker of Daddy.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Backing (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backing%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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