bulking

verb

present participle of bulk
1
as in distending

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2
as in bloating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulking
  1. increasing
  2. flooding
  3. swelling
  4. loading
  5. inflating
  6. enlarging
  7. accelerating
  8. expanding
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  • After months of decline, gas prices across the country are steadily increasing after the fragile ceasefire between Iran and the United States broke down last week.
    — Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
  • Medicare regulators on Tuesday proposed to ban vendors from providing remote patient monitoring services on behalf of doctors, a major policy change for a rapidly growing care model that’s been the subject of increasing scrutiny.
    — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 15 July 2026
Definition of increasing
Verb
  • At some point in the mid-1850s, the river Padma suddenly carved a new path through the village of his ancestors in modern-day Bangladesh, flooding their homes and scattering them across the Indian subcontinent.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
  • Trump weaponized that hostility, emphasizing a narrative of Maduro flooding American streets with fentanyl and mentally ill criminals.
    — Rafael Osío Cabrices, Time, 20 July 2026
Definition of flooding
Verb
  • The night had brought booming thunder through a steady rain, swelling the rivers and creeks that ran through or just around the town.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • Myfembree may cause swelling of your face, lips, mouth or tongue, trouble breathing, skin rashes, and redness.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 14 July 2026
Definition of swelling
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  • Riyadh has been diverting about four million barrels a day of crude oil from their east-west pipeline over to Yanbu, loading tankers, many of which are going out the Red Sea, data provided by Lipow showed.
    — Lee Ying Shan,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • Add 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide to the washer drum or the automatic bleach dispenser before loading white clothes into the washer.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 14 July 2026
Definition of loading
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  • The answer has been inflating job descriptions with new skills and industry or functional work experience.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • From inflating power costs for consumers to requiring gross amounts of water for cooling, data centers are frequently putting surrounding communities under significant strain.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 17 July 2026
Definition of inflating
Verb
  • Attention, for Weil and for Murdoch, is a way of enlarging one’s desire for good.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • At least that seems to be the message from our winners this year in aviation, where the focus is just as much on technology gains and cabin refinement as on enlarging the airframe.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
Definition of enlarging
Verb
  • Surging tensions across the Middle East strangled shipping traffic, driving energy prices higher and raising the specter of accelerating inflation worldwide.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 21 July 2026
  • There is plenty of performance available, particularly when accelerating from 30 to 70mph.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of accelerating
Verb
  • The stores may keep expanding, franchisees may continue earning attractive returns, and debt may come down faster than expected.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The adviser told me that, even without drastically expanding the budget or upending the financial markets, Burnham could borrow a bit more to finance public-infrastructure investments and channel money to depressed regions.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of expanding
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