CHECKING Synonyms: 146 Similar and Opposite Words

checking

verb

Definition of checking next

present participle of check

as in corresponding

to be in agreement on every point their story of what happened checks with the report of the eyewitness

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as in stopping

to bring (something) to a standstill a tree finally checked the skidding car

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as in keeping

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression) check your enthusiasm a bit, and think before you marry someone you just met

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Recent Examples of checking Sharp, a mother of three, is constantly up, checking to make sure Cambrie is breathing. —

Marina Kopf, NBC news, 27 May 2026 Fact checking by Sierra Juarez. —

Adrian Ma, NPR, 27 May 2026 Walsh recommends checking your credit report and credit score, too. —

Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 20 May 2026 Banks considered that checking the immigration status and citizenship of all current clients would be very burdensome and nearly impossible, Reuters reported last month. —

Nupur Anand, USA Today, 20 May 2026 The report also recommends checking live fares and using price tracking, two features available at Skyscanner. —

Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026 What once took months of work to turn a concept vehicle sketch into a realistic animation now takes days, and checking aerodynamics no longer requires sculpting clay model after clay model. —

Summer Ballentine, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026 There have also been infotainment system updates for Subaru vehicles, and checking for available updates may resolve the problem. —

Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026 Hendricks imparts the importance of theater skills — like collaborating, listening, interpreting, storytelling, checking your ego, taking criticism — even if his pupils go on to careers outside the arts. —

CBS News, 12 May 2026

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Losi added that Kalshi reached out to his team asking Dune to take full responsibility for the decision to pull the datasets corresponding to parlay losses from public view.

— Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 26 May 2026
To the extent that interest rates move without a corresponding change in inflation expectations, TIPS holders remain exposed to that duration, or interest rate, risk.

— Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026