carrying out

verb

present participle of carry out
as in fulfilling
to carry through (as a process) to completion carried out the task efficiently and cheerfully

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Recent Examples of carrying out The massacre left at least 70 people dead and factions of the gang were accused of carrying out the attacks. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026 Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi, who announced the figures and is part of a government team carrying out a sweeping crackdown, said Malawians, Mozambicans, and Zimbabweans made up the bulk of those sent overseas. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 13 July 2026 He’s accused of using a cellphone, the internet and interstate highways, among other means, while planning and carrying out the attack, as well as staying at a hostel that serves out-of-state customers. — Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 Sit, 54, and his girlfriend, Tingfeng Liu, 24, were convicted last week – Sit on multiple counts of felony animal cruelty and other charges related to the deaths of nearly a dozen dogs, and Liu on several charges related to her help in carrying out the cremations. — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 25 June 2026 And the last, and most complex, are the regional powers financing the fighting, middle-power actors like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Iran spending huge sums to back insurgent groups while carrying out strategic military strikes in pursuit of resources and political power. — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026 Officials said one defendant, Heriberto Rodriguez of Framingham, Massachusetts, is accused of carrying out more than $546,000 in benefit fraud involving MassHealth, Social Security, housing assistance and SNAP benefits. — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026 The environmental lawsuit is the latest attempt to prevent the governor from carrying out his unpopular return-to-office order. — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026 Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations. — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carrying out
  1. fulfilling
  2. performing
  3. executing
  4. achieving
  5. accomplishing
  6. doing
  7. making
  8. carrying off
Verb
  • What fewer people appreciate is that friendship does, too, and the return on that investment may be just as consequential for a fulfilling retirement.
    — Wes Moss, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Whatever the mission type, the winning team is determined by total score, which includes both fulfilling the mission objective and shooting down enemies.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026
Definition of fulfilling
Verb
  • Since February, its general-purpose robots have been performing production work at a Toyota manufacturing plant in North America, progressing from an initial pilot to active factory operations in less than two months.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
  • In her absence, Hannah Solow and Jackie Sanders have been performing in the role of Mary Todd Lincoln and Mary’s Chaperone, respectively.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 July 2026
Definition of performing
Verb
  • An enhanced asynchronous inference mechanism allows robots to predict future states while executing actions and continuously update decisions using real-world observations.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
  • Fenton brought along his up-tempo, no-huddle offense from Los Alamitos, and quarterbacks Ezrah Brown and Reagan Toki were executing it in midseason form.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of executing
Verb
  • Bruce McLaren was a legendary New Zealand racing driver, engineer and designer regarded as one of the most brilliant, versatile minds in motorsport history, achieving rare success simultaneously as a world-class driver and a visionary constructor.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 July 2026
  • Saturday’s flight is a step forward for Japan in achieving the technology needed to develop a lower cost successor to the country’s current mainstay, single-use H3 series.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of achieving
Verb
  • Make Donors The Story’s Heroes Years ago, a development professional taught me to center donor communications around what the donor is accomplishing.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The primary question is whether this crowded field of new entrants is actually accomplishing anything, or whether its members are simply tripping over one another with deleterious impact.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
Definition of accomplishing
Verb
  • An easy way to keep your bones strong is doing weight-bearing exercises.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 16 July 2026
  • One household’s squeeze may look nothing like its neighbor’s, but trace each far enough back and the same few fractures are doing the work.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
Definition of doing
Verb
  • His removal sparked public protests and discord within the Ukrainian military, with Fedorov making an outspoken attack on the chief of the armed forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, on Thursday.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • The Three Lions were just six minutes away from making their first World Cup final since 1966.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Definition of making
Verb
  • Zeus acting for his own pleasure underlies the evolutionary tales of small groups raiding foreign shores, carrying off women.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Before the night was out, Germans began chipping away at the barrier, carrying off chunks of one of the symbols of the diminishing Iron Curtain.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 9 Nov. 2025
Definition of carrying off

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“Carrying out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrying%20out. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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