caving

present participle of cave

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Verb
  • Grasshopper Film, which is also submitting the documentary for Best Documentary Feature, will release the film theatrically in New York and Los Angeles next month.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • His conviction stemmed from a series of criminal schemes, including submitting false campaign finance documents, misusing donor identities to route funds for personal and campaign use, and providing fraudulent information to the New York State Department of Labor and the House of Representatives.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The government’s response only deepened the criticism that the world’s largest democracy was apparently capitulating to the Taliban, which has been diplomatically isolated over its treatment of women and girls.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Guerrero and his Blue Jays teammates are nowhere close to capitulating, down 2-0 in a best-of-seven format.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The win also marked Kansas City's second shutout under head coach Andy Reid and its first since yielding zero points to the Texans during the wild-card round of the 2015 postseason, according to the Chiefs' website.
    Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Children yielding markers and stickers worked with deputies to draw designs on pumpkins donated by the store and deputies helped with the carving.
    Leonard Ortiz, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To his sons, however, the Party offers meaning and purpose—a powerful countervailing force to the lack of prospects besetting their generation, which had been decimated by the Great War.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Caving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caving. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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