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blooming

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verb

present participle of bloom

blooming

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of blooming
Adjective
In Möbius strip fashion, Gein grows obsessed with crime — and the toxic blooming of his obsession into murder goes on to enthrall the world. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025 Division also promotes heavier blooming. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025 The blooming of Korea’s Asian Spring was cut short by the arrival of foreign occupying armies. Kornel Chang september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025 Tombstone holds an annual rose festival in April to celebrate the blooming of the original Shady Lady, according to the museum website. Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
Yes mama, violets do it best—blooming and enduring despite the rough summer heat. Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 The multiyear partnership, a first for both the brand and the league, cemented the already blooming relationship between the players and fashion. Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025 Besides its many uses in cooking, a lavender plant adds fragrance and color wherever it's planted—along a path, beside a patio, or in a pot on your back deck—thanks to a long blooming season. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025 In late spring, the city hums with farmers’ markets, craft beer events and bike rides along blooming lakefront paths. Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Mums are grown in different crops to have three or four peak blooming times. Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025 Each spring, hotel staff plant more than to ensure a beautiful blooming season in the hotel's gardens, the hotel said on Facebook. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
Nixon’s professed and late-blooming concern for safeguarding the rights of criminal defendants might be a bit hard to swallow; these were, after all, the Watergate burglars. Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025 Dramatic ball skirts blooming with color and texture were styled with simple silk Ts and cotton shirts. Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 Spring-blooming varieties can appear in late February, sending blooms through March or April. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025 For styling, use blooming gels—do candy swirls in multiple chocolates and go monochromatic from light to dark (or dark to light). Larry Stansbury, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025 Save your dahlias, cannas, and other summer-blooming bulbs for next year with these must-know storage tips. Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025 Alaïa took the trend further with an oversized black flower choker blooming from the closure of a cropped jacket. Minty Mellon, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025 Ground station crews that today coordinate elegant sequences of thruster burns will face more chaotic obstacle courses and bigger debris fields blooming across their display monitors. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025 Real, beautiful, blooming flowers. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blooming
Adjective
  • The light from the heat lamp makes a glowing red line on the curved side of the phone.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Her dress burns like the end of a glowing cast iron.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Cambodia and Thailand agreed to an unconditional ceasefire after talks in Malaysia on July 28.
    Colin Meyn, The Hill, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Yet Make Me Commissioner is anything but an unconditional love letter to the game.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On a wall in the main dining room, McGarry points out a large painting of a flowering chamomile plant.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • While the adults chew on ornamental plants, fruit trees, berry plants, and many different shade and ornamental trees such as linden, Japanese maple, crepe myrtle, and flowering crabapple, the grubs feed on the roots of turfgrasses and vegetable seedlings, says Potter.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And Prince William would have been forgiven for blushing when Kate pointedly replied that the poster had in fact shown the TV hunk from a famous Levi advert.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The kid wore birthday glasses and shook his head at each shot, blushing.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Watching Jaden Smith’s aspiring musician character Dizzee enjoy a blossoming romance with graffiti artist Thor.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • Living year-round with her family in a camping resort, a blossoming romance with a tourist brings her latent insecurities to the surface.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And there is no free-agent catcher who would look better in red pinstripes than him.
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • To truly experience its peaceful side, travelers should plan trips during the off-season, when the red rocks glow just as brightly — but the crowds are far fewer.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Or does the sheer scale of the challenge demand the capacity, availability and rock-bottom prices that only established Chinese suppliers can provide?
    Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • While the bans would have only applied in California, the state’s sheer size gives it significant influence over what gets manufactured for sale across the nation.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In addition to fresh drinking water reserves, Lindsey recommends storing buckets of water prior to the storm for flushing toilets.
    Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The bathroom is situated on the opposite side of the house to the living room, and includes a shower, a sink, and a flushing toilet.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Blooming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blooming. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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