coacting

variants or co-acting
present participle of coact

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coacting
Verb
  • The clarinet and piano played musical lines imitating birds.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In the image, the president is also backdropped by a city beach covered with fire and smoke, seemingly imitating an active war zone.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Using an ice chamber, the team froze mixtures of water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia to a bone-chilling –420 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Celsius), mimicking frigid conditions near the moon's surface.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The future of marketing for SMBs doesn’t lie in mimicking enterprise strategies.
    Ashot Barseghyan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Swift said, miming Jason holding up his beer can.
    Rachel McRady, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Harris told me, miming fireworks.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • With only a tiny tax-credit ESA program, Missouri has lagged behind other red states in enacting robust school-choice policies.
    Kerry McDonald, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Midway, his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, posed three reclining Art Deco figures in a fountain, representing the three main waterways of the city.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Some lobbying groups representing tech and semiconductor interests have also criticized the effort, with the chipmakers’ representatives urging congressional leadership to block the measure’s passage into law.
    Owen Tedford, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Coacting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coacting. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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