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bowing

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verb (1)

present participle of bow

bowing

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verb (2)

present participle of bow

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bowing
Verb
He will be killed by his brother, the angel Ejllael (Steve Noh), for bowing to a human. Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025 Though Jimmy Kimmel is now back on the air, the Directors Guild of America isn’t acting like this instance of a Hollywood corporation apparently bowing to political pressure will be a one-off. Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025 Next up for Brown is the final season of Stranger Things, which Netflix release over three volumes with the first set of episodes bowing over Thanksgiving weekend and the final episode bowing on New Year’s Eve. Justin Kroll, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025 However, the second time around, people are noting that there’s actually no official rule about curtsying or bowing when meeting members of the British royal family. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2025 In the new iterations bowing this week, the term is repeated three times, as is customary with Enriquez’s fashion. Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025 But rather than bowing to Trump’s pressure campaign, analysts say, Chinese leaders are using an app cherished by the US president and millions of Americans as leverage to extract other, far more consequential concessions. Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025 In August, the discontent grew when a leak showed that the White House's forthcoming MAHA strategy report would sidestep tougher limits on pesticides and other agrochemicals, bowing to fierce industry pressure. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba resigned on Sunday, bowing to internal party pressure after a poor performance in July legislative elections. J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bowing
Adjective
  • James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • The composer also added synths to his orchestral score, as well as bowed metal, where a violin bow is rubbed against metal instruments like a cowbell or a Vibraphone, for when Roz has a particularly intense feeling.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021

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“Bowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bowing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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