confecting

present participle of confect

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of confecting Emboldened, Iran began reviving or confecting proxy forces in yet more locations. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confecting
Verb
  • Microsoft is constructing a solar power plant in Portage County to put 250-megawatts back into the grid.
    Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That estimate also doesn't include the cost of constructing a new facility in Houston to serve as the space shuttle's new home.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ninety-eight of those flights have been devoted to building out the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the largest satellite network ever assembled.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • But experts are still concerned about building a sustainable food supply chain for the future.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Music reality series focused on assembling a group have been around for years.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Coaching the Crew The crew — including two backup crew members, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenni Gibbons — have been just as busy as the people assembling their spacecraft.
    Matt Alderton, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Parents who experience domestic and intimate partner violence are more likely to have decision-making power for their children, but are less likely to have primary placement — actual time with their kids — after family court involvement in Milwaukee County, according to a new study.
    Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Shirley had stumbled onto the Canal Street vendors while in New York making a video about Zohran Mamdani.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is a huge driver for bringing down the cost of the space economy in general and has been the opportunity for creating many other new space companies.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • These past two days have reinforced for me the importance of codifying principles and creating a road map to achieve them.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • China, for political reasons, is fast erecting barriers.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And, in a break with the past, the VDMA is now expressing support for erecting countervailing tariffs when foreign products are found to be made with the support of government subsidies.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Confecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confecting. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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