conducting

present participle of conduct
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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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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of conducting Seven in ten CEOs reported conducting strategic risk reviews on a monthly basis, compared to 50% of CIOs. — John Kell, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 The judge handling last month endorsed a proposal by the suit's plaintiff to notify potential class members to submit claims on the settlement by conducting a four-week-long social media campaign on Facebook and Instagram. — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026 Homeland Security Investigations, the agency conducting the at-home visits, is one of the enforcement arms of ICE and typically focuses on criminal cross border investigations like child exploitation, drug smuggling and money laundering. — Madeleine May, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 In response, Logan said his office is focused on conducting a fair and secure election while noting that Election Day is a mere 18 days away. — Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026 According to Moussa Ag Acharatoumane, the armed group attacked civilians, accusing them of revealing ISSP positions to the Malian army who had been conducting a drone strike on the group. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 The gang-fighting force’s command said troops have been conducting operations in the area since Sunday and have engaged members of armed gangs. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026 This is, after all, an institution that frequently has trouble passing stopgap spending bills and conducting routine legislative business. — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026 And conducting that work within Anthropic risked constraining White Circle from sharing it with the public. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conducting
Verb
  • For ShadowMachine, Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico serve as executive producers, and Musa Brooker serves as supervising director.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The surge in profits has been driven by robust trading in stocks, bonds and currencies, fees from supervising and advising clients’ investments, underwriting initial public offerings and a pickup in mergers and acquisitions.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • One of the main threads of the book that drew Duffield to directing the adaptation was the father-son relationship at its core; his own son was 4 at the time of the set visit.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier in the same week, North Korea reported testing tactical ballistic missiles from the area around the capital, directing them towards the East Sea.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Protesters, many of whom have been seen carrying Palestinian flags, have set fire to historic buildings and attacked civilians.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Mitchell Fairbarn was captured on surveillance video carrying the 27-year-old Chilean flamingo, Peachy, to his room after removing the bird from its enclosure at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in March.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Acting was his guiding passion, but his deep love for the avant-garde helped till the ground for the city’s theatrical renaissance that the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival catalyzed.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • That conviction is guiding the $385 billion Abu Dhabi fund on its investment decisions.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That role demands reliable equipment capable of transmitting strategic instructions during severe national security crises.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The latest hotter than expected PPI figures indicate that price pressures are now transmitting from the energy sector into the broader real economy.
    — , CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Judge Heather Beato, appointed by DeSantis to the 10th Judicial Circuit in 2020, is overseeing the case, a court docket shows.
    — Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, the board should function as a concert of great powers, both democratic and autocratic, tasked with managing crises and overseeing and building consensus on matters of global governance.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Mansi points to sponsors providing direct grants and channeling more of the festival’s commercial backing straight to filmmakers.
    — Essie Assibu, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But fear not, Lisa will be channeling that energy into her art.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • For instance, Siri’s lack of thinking power compared with other ultra-smart AI agents means that there’s far less of a chance of going rogue, or behaving in eerie ways.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Rather than behaving independently, their interactions begin to constrain how the material changes.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026

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“Conducting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conducting. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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