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 Despite their return, the Sussexes will remain as non-working royals and will not be carrying out any official royal engagements on behalf of the sovereign, says the document, sent by Lord Chamberlain, a top Palace official, according to the BBC. — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026 Prakash Chand, a resident, said laborers were in the basement carrying out digging work when the building collapsed. — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026 The update makes Claude more useful in carrying out work tasks as Anthropic is evolving the assistant into more of an AI workplace agent. — Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Tehran has said the Iranians went missing while carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on March 2, shortly after the outbreak of the war. — August 17, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 Employees at that agency are tasked with carrying out infrastructure projects that protect military and public spaces from long-term risks, like erosion, and more immediate problems, including disaster recovery after storms. — Chiara Eisner, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026 The remaining work includes installing equipment, carrying out system integration, and completing testing before the ropeway opens to passengers. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026 Sobbing and struggling to speak, the then-14-year-old described pausing in a school bathroom before carrying out the attack. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 July 2026 If Mamdani calls for the Israeli leader to be taken into custody, Tisch would be tasked with carrying out the arrest. — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 19 July 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
  • But anything beyond that won't necessarily enhance happiness as much as having fulfilling hobbies, relationships and opportunities for personal growth.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Suddenly, Payne went from selling fewer than ten books annually on Alibris to fulfilling orders of ten books, averaging as much as seventy-five to eighty dollars each, at a time on the site.
    — Francesca Mancino, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of fulfilling
Verb
  • Since January, India's benchmark indexes have been among the worst-performing across major global equity markets.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • At this point, the two begin (deep sigh) performing lines from Romeo and Juliet while dressed as the title characters.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of performing
Verb
  • De Zerbi will take encouragement from Savio’s bright debut, with the £85million recruit from Manchester City looking bright and threatening, without executing on the final action.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Visions of executing her husband dance through her head with wonderful humor throughout.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of executing
Verb
  • The joint statement said Namibia had surpassed UNAIDS targets by achieving a target of 96% of people living with HIV knowing their status, 98% of those diagnosed receiving treatment, and 98% of those treated having achieved viral suppression.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
  • An upset victory in Alaska for Democrats would be a massive step toward achieving that goal.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of achieving
Verb
  • By gradually accomplishing a de-facto annexation of the West Bank, the settlements would require Israeli Jews either to rule over a resentful non-Jewish population of about equal size or to surrender the Jewish identity of their state.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The three-time Olympic gold medalist celebrated accomplishing the feat, though there was a small caveat.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of accomplishing
Verb
  • Subsense, which has raised $27 million in funding, is currently doing preclinical work, experimenting with various elements of the technology and conducting some experiments on mice.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now, the two men — coach and GM — are in the process of doing exactly as each promised when they were hired.
    — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of doing
Verb
  • Inflation has remained sticky and above central-bank targets over the past year, making further policy tightening unsurprising, according to the UBS CEO.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The Sphagnum mosses that surround me arose some 14 million years ago, the descendants of mosses that evolved 400 million years ago, making their lineage older than the coal seams that runs through the deep mountains.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 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 11 Sep. 2026.

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