companying

verb

present participle of company
1
as in traveling
to come or be together as friends in her sermon the minister noted that Jesus had companied with the least privileged and most disadvantaged members of society

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2
as in accompanying
to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship may the Good Lord company you on your journey home

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for companying
  1. traveling
  2. accompanying
  3. associating
  4. mingling
  5. relating
  6. connecting
  7. running
  8. bonding
Verb
  • Soon, crew who had been traveling on the plane stepped in to stabilize it, issuing a mayday call and seeking a place to land.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Two people died and one remains missing after a medical transport helicopter traveling from Catalina Island to the mainland crashed into the Pacific on Wednesday; two others were rescued and stable.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of traveling
Verb
  • The two heirs who had signed the contract, meanwhile, received a 16% commission, according to an account statement accompanying the letter.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The sickly scent of alcohol filled the air and, when mixed with accompanying cigar smoke, combined for an odor most might find displeasing.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of accompanying
Verb
  • King’s reaction, and the way the media was reporting on the verdict, revealed an unseemly form of racial stereotyping, associating a particular moral or legal position with being Black.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The web now contains one more independent page associating that company with a particular problem, category or use case.
    — Mat Golubovic, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of associating
Verb
  • Thick fringe folded over the front of her face, mingling with her spider-leg lashes, which brushed the bottom of her brows.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In his bedroom, there was a photo of him mingling with Princess Di at a party, and another of him at Princeton sitting next to none other than Albert Einstein.
    — Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of mingling
Verb
  • The incentive would allow a 35% to 50% credit on qualified expenses relating specifically to post-production in California.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Relationship science draws a useful line here between two ways of relating.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of relating
Verb
  • The Bernina Express is a famous red scenic train connecting Tirano in Italy to Saint Moritz along a UNESCO World Heritage Site route.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The prolific and acclaimed writer and activist used his liberal beliefs and his agrarian roots in Kentucky to craft novels, poems and essays connecting the natural world to humankind.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of connecting
Verb
  • The finding resolves a long-running question about the material’s electrical behavior.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
  • By 2020, however, it had been reduced to a century-and-a-half-old ruin running a mile along the River Lee and in the midst of condo conversion.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of running
Verb
  • This summer, Rodgers put together a team-bonding trip to a ranch out west for four days.
    — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • After graduating, Papadopoulos took classes at Hunter College, bonding with classmates over sword and sorcery movies.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of bonding
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“Companying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/companying. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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