demising

present participle of demise

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for demising
Verb
  • The thriller series was left on a cliffhanger, with President Rayburn (Michael McKean) dying at the end of season two.
    Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Women who miss their first screening appointment for breast cancer could have a 40% higher long-term risk of dying from the disease, according to a new study.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With less money being invested by record labels into touring, that has created a top-heavy artist hierarchy, with the rich getting richer and the poor and middle class falling by the wayside.
    Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The group acknowledged a need to modernize the government's data gathering processes, which have been hampered by falling survey response rates.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The boys didn't always survive their adventures, with one perishing from a snake bite and another drowning in a Bolivian flood.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On September 24, Judge Smith permanently enjoined DHS from enforcing broad new immigration compliance conditions on a wide range of preparedness grants, ruling the agency had exceeded its statutory authority and failed to justify departing from longstanding grant practices.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The local controller was distracted, the report said, talking to another air traffic control facility about the wrong altitude assigned to a different departing aircraft.
    Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The move, sparked by expiring health benefits, ignited what could be a long bitter standoff, and ultimately furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers, although some workers will continue to receive pay.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Groups of lawmakers have been huddling on the Senate floor and in hallways around the chamber working to craft a compromise to reopen government and extend the expiring health care tax credits and subsidies.
    Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Demising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demising. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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