beelining

verb

present participle of beeline
1
as in putting

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2
as in overtaking

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beelining
  1. putting
  2. overtaking
  3. setting out
  4. outrunning
  5. aiming
  6. outpacing
  7. setting off
  8. accelerating
Verb
  • Blanchard says putting guardsmen in those relatively safe areas allows local police to concentrate more officers in parts of the city where crime is higher.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • That lets Nvidia expand its customers' buying power without putting every project on its own balance sheet.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of putting
Verb
  • Combining their charter fleets will move them to the sixth spot, overtaking PlaneSense and closing on fifth-place flyExclusive.
    — Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The sleepy Silicon Valley enclave has reclaimed its title as the country’s most expensive ZIP code, overtaking Miami’s Fisher Island after home prices surged during the first half of the year.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of overtaking
Verb
  • Travelers should plan at least one to two weeks, check park reservations and seasonal closures, and download offline maps before setting out.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Born in Mexico City, Correa Cordero previously worked at galleries such as Exit Art, Martos, and Yancey Richardson before setting out on his own.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of setting out
Verb
  • To wit, an investor who was in at the start would be down $65,530 on a price basis on a $100,000 investment, as of this writing, from the IPO date, but would have collected about $75,000 from dividends, just barely outrunning the loss on price.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • His peers of the mid-19th century were outrunning their critics and the old strictures of colonial imitation.
    — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
Definition of outrunning
Verb
  • Rodriguez returns after a 15-month layoff and hand surgery, aiming to re-enter the title picture against Silva, who seeks a second win this year to secure a title shot.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Democrats are aiming to keep control of the Michigan governorship in what is expected to be a competitive general election race.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of aiming
Verb
  • Standard maps are of little help when the capital redraws itself weekly, with closures and new interchanges outpacing the Big Tech cartographers.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Fellow Anthropic co-founder and chief science officer Jared Kaplan had long feared that AI would eventually accelerate research, perhaps outpacing safety efforts.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of outpacing
Verb
  • This year, Europe has been sweltering under an exceptionally hot and arid summer, with tinderbox conditions setting off unprecedented fires that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate homes and vacation spots.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The peaceful exile is shattered when Ravana’s sister, Surpanakha (played by Rakul Preet Singh), becomes infatuated with Rama, setting off a chain of events that leads to her humiliation.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 July 2026
Definition of setting off
Verb
  • The same conundrum saw investors punish Alphabet and Tesla, but reward Microsoft and Amazon for accelerating revenue growth and posting blowout backlog numbers this quarter.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Reuters — Japan’s government is portraying its accelerating military buildup not only as ​a way to protect the country but as a route to greater prosperity, arguing in ‌its latest defence white paper that arms production can support economic growth.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of accelerating
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