CONDUCTING Synonyms: 120 Similar and Opposite Words

conducting

verb

present participle of conduct

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 Johnson County is working with an outside agency to collect ridership data, demographic data and survey responses along with conducting a peer analysis in order to present a case for making the shuttle permanent. —

Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026 Rather than conducting sweeping layoffs, Karp told analysts Palantir plans to largely freeze hiring and use AI to multiply employee productivity. —

Preston Fore, Fortune, 9 June 2026 During the mission, two crew members will spend about a week near the moon's south pole, conducting research. —

Greta Cross, USA Today, 9 June 2026 Investigators determined what happened based on reviewing video evidence and conducting interviews, Trinley said. —

ABC News, 9 June 2026 Harrison Area detectives were conducting a homicide investigation Monday morning. —

Adam Harrington, CBS News, 8 June 2026 The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI have been conducting an investigation into the situation, but no suspects have been named in the more than four months since Nancy was taken. —

Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026 Although centered around the cartographer’s task of conducting the Ordnance Survey of 1865, there are flashbacks to the Great Hunger in the 1840s, as well as meditations on movement within and out of the country, taking readers to Italy, Canada, and then back to that unnamed Irish peninsula. —

Nora Biette-Timmons, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 Is another moratorium vote next On May 28, Hood County’s development commission discussed the Project Spectrum vote and talked about conducting a public hearing later this month concerning a moratorium on industrial development. —

Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026

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Instead of acting as intermediaries, humans focus on defining policies, supervising system behavior and handling exceptions.

— Krupesh Bhat, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
The defendant, 36, who has not been publicly identified, is accused of assaulting children while supervising them in bathrooms, during lunch breaks and in after-school care between August 2024 and April 2025.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 May 2026