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as in supervising
to look after and make decisions about
the company's president continues to conduct the everyday affairs of the software firm he founded many years ago
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as in directing
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway
the gutter conducts water to the curb, thus protecting the house's basement
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as in carrying
to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way
conducted themselves at the party like perfect ladies and gentlemen
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as in guiding
to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front
a job conducting tourists through the historical museum
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as in transmitting
to cause (something) to pass from one to another
a material that conducts heat quite efficiently
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Recent Examples of conducting
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said the agents were conducting an immigration enforcement operation at the time.
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Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
The emerging damage of deepfakes On September 15th, 2025, Reuters reported that international gangs were conducting fraud operations by using AI to make online romance scams more believable.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
The Cincinnati Health Department, Hamilton County Public Health and the Ohio Department of Health are conducting additional water tests at Christ Hospital’s main campus in response to the two cases.
—Mary Lebus, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the decades, Gluck started to question the value of conducting psychological experiments on monkeys.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Currently, there is no information on how much land has been burned or the size of the crew conducting the prescribed fire.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Physicists were baffled as to why this material would suddenly stop conducting current once the tellurium content reached approximately 30 percent—a change that its basic chemical composition could not explain.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
PepsiCo is experimenting with new flavors suited to regional tastes and is conducting research at a new facility in Riyadh.
—Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Half an hour later, however, the Super Hornet, also conducting routine operations from the Nimitz, also went down in the sea.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
The emerging damage of deepfakes On September 15th, 2025, Reuters reported that international gangs were conducting fraud operations by using AI to make online romance scams more believable.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
The Cincinnati Health Department, Hamilton County Public Health and the Ohio Department of Health are conducting additional water tests at Christ Hospital’s main campus in response to the two cases.
—Mary Lebus, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the decades, Gluck started to question the value of conducting psychological experiments on monkeys.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Currently, there is no information on how much land has been burned or the size of the crew conducting the prescribed fire.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Physicists were baffled as to why this material would suddenly stop conducting current once the tellurium content reached approximately 30 percent—a change that its basic chemical composition could not explain.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
PepsiCo is experimenting with new flavors suited to regional tastes and is conducting research at a new facility in Riyadh.
—Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Half an hour later, however, the Super Hornet, also conducting routine operations from the Nimitz, also went down in the sea.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conducting
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Working within restricted space, Lanthimos felt the need to go big with the filmmaking, both with supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Johnnie Burn’s sound design and composer Jerskin Fendrix’s music, which is by far the biggest score in the score-adverse director’s career.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
31 Oct. 2025
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The children's parents were simply socializing like normal, the man wrote, not supervising the kids at all.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Educational institutions aren't an exception, especially in 2025, when attackers are actively directing their efforts toward them.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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The film marks the first directing credit for Robert Wise (later of 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still and 1965's The Sound of Music glory), since he was uncredited for directing additional sequences in The Magnificent Ambersons two years prior.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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Major retailers started carrying blue Halloween buckets, including Amazon, Walmart and Target.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The result is a canvas capable of carrying emotional depth, material beauty, and archival quality, allowing works like Mourad’s to be both contemporary and timeless.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
30 Oct. 2025
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While Hudson dressed up in her clever attire, Belichick spent Halloween guiding his UNC Chapel Hill football players during their away game against Syracuse University.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
1 Nov. 2025
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Equity is a guiding principle in the district’s Rebuilding Stronger plan, which seeks to stabilize IPS enrollment and finances while also providing more educational opportunities to students of color.—
Amelia Pak-Harvey,
IndyStar,
31 Oct. 2025
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This conversation didn’t just demonstrate the potential of transmitting voice.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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He was charged with transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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About the Author Jordan Blum is the Energy editor at Fortune, overseeing coverage of a growing global energy sector for oil and gas, transition businesses, renewables, and critical minerals.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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The project is executive produced by Julie Kroll, Lior Haas, Lisa Wolofsky and Edoardo Bussi of Twenty-Nine Palms Entertainment, who is overseeing global sales and will be presenting the title to distributors at the AFM.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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At the very end of the movie, Bigelow captures a variety of government officials funneling into Raven Rock Mountain Complex, otherwise known as Site R, a military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge, Pa.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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Why bother funneling all of that through Hollywood’s pomp and corniness into a movie that’s only half good?—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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Some visitors behaving badly at the parks can add to the strain.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Hungry children have a harder time paying attention, behaving, and learning in school.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Conducting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conducting. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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