breezing

verb

present participle of breeze
1
as in flowing
to move or proceed smoothly and readily we breezed through the line for customs at the airport

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2
as in speeding
to proceed or move quickly the doctor breezed past the people in the waiting room, apparently on his way to an emergency

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Recent Examples of breezing But breezing by the technical stuff also seems to leave some people missing the evidence. — Matthew Herper, STAT, 20 Oct. 2026 That applies to everything from packing to navigating a new city, and of course, breezing through TSA. — Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2026 Amsterdam is crowded, and cars, trams, bikers, and pedestrians seem to float by from all directions in silence … lost in the white noise of breezing through this dreamy city on two wheels. — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026 Even when Corsini occasionally trusts his audience a little too much, breezing past visual clues that are easy to miss while lingering too long on a second-act monologue about the purpose of art, that confidence is largely earned. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 July 2026 Detmers was breezing at that point, retiring all nine Royals hitters in the first three innings, on just 41 pitches. — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 27 Apr. 2026 Texas Instruments helped limit Wall Street’s losses after breezing past analysts’ expectations for profit in the latest quarter. — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 But Texas Instruments helped offset those losses after breezing past analysts’ expectations for profit in the latest quarter. — Stan Choe, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026 Even more than the other chill night-shift doctors, Crus is cool as a cucumber, breezing through patient interactions with a reassuring smile. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breezing
  1. flowing
  2. speeding
  3. cruising
  4. hurrying
  5. drifting
  6. zipping
  7. trotting
  8. rushing
Verb
  • About two-thirds of S&P 500 returns since 2024 have come from 42 AI stocks and almost all of the venture dollars this year are flowing into AI, with some firms nearing trillion-dollar valuations.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There's a substantial amount of money flowing through the political texting business, and the people sending these messages have financial reasons to keep doing it.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of flowing
Verb
  • Witnesses said the speeding car jumped over a sidewalk, knocked down a chain-link fence and ripped out another wooden fence before going airborne into the house.
    — Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • However, public listings are very much on the table in Asia, with firms jostling for a piece of India's Jio IPO and venture capitalist Jenny Lee saying that startups in the region were 'speeding' toward IPOs.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of speeding
Verb
  • If Mick hadn’t come cruising into that playground, lights off?
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The Arlington Heights Yellowjackets continued their dominant season Friday, cruising to a dominant 71-0 victory over the North Side Steers and extending their unbeaten record.
    — Aliza Acuna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of cruising
Verb
  • Before hurrying away from his tent on the beach, Saleh was asked what would happen if US support never came.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Corle continued flagging and minutes later McCoy was back on the trail, hurrying to catch up.
    — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of hurrying
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  • Three-times married, his was to be a literary career pock-marked by substance abuse issues leading to a peripatetic existence drifting from one august institution to another.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Toxic haze has covered parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for weeks as Jakarta struggles to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Borneo and Sumatra, with the smoke drifting across the region.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of drifting
Verb
  • Between zipping around to market appointments and fashion weeks, shooting new campaigns, and booking it across the world for interviews and events, the fashion set knows its way around a travel accessory.
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There were Zoom sessions and musicians cutting strings in Italy before crushing them into a file and zipping them across an ocean.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of zipping
Verb
  • Quickley countered by trotting upcourt and sinking another 3 over the rookie.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Christiane Amanpour, who parlayed a job as a news assistant on CNN‘s foreign desk into a years-long globe-trotting assignment for the news giant, plans to step away from the media company in June.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of trotting
Verb
  • At each step in this chain, a portion of the electrons’ energy is siphoned off to pump protons across a membrane—Mitchell’s great insight—and the pressure of those protons rushing back through a molecular turbine is what makes ATP.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • After allowing four sacks and managing 33 rushing yards against the Bears, TCU ranks last in the Big 12 in rushing yards and sacks allowed.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of rushing

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“Breezing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breezing. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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