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designing

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verb

present participle of design

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of designing
Adjective
That means giving up or sharing power and privilege and doing the hard work of listening and co-designing solutions with the marginalized groups. Setche Kwamu-Nana, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020 In the 1960s, the computing pioneer Grace Murray Hopper would hand out 11.8-inch lengths of wire to illustrate how designing smaller electronic parts would create faster computers. John Markoff, New York Times, 29 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for designing
Adjective
  • Premiering in January 2023, The Traitors has gone on to widespread acclaim, even winning Emmys for Outstanding Reality Competition Program and Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program (Alan Cumming on cunning form).
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • In real life, most would-be Proud Boys don’t have cunning, progressive housemates who will throw away their gun parts.
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • For new investors in their early 20s or 30s who have never experienced a market correction or for someone planning on retiring soon, experiencing a market correction can be very unsettling.
    Earl Carr, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Some companies are already planning to raise prices in response.
    DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Special artist is also preparing to take on her first lead movie role as she was recently cast as gospel star Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was one of the first to appeal to rock ‘n’ roll and R&B audiences, in Amazon MGM Studios’ Rosetta.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
  • As the case was preparing to go to trial, in May 2004, the parties settled.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • At a press screening of the film in March, these cute, interstitial clips drew big laughs.
    Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 7 May 2025
  • Wine corks also make cute place card holders and wine glass charms.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States.
    Elaine Shirley, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2025
  • China is also targeting the moon, intending to land astronauts there by 2030.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Many probationary employees in the Science Mission Directorate, expecting not to come back the following week, spent Valentine’s Day and the weekend organizing their work and sending it to others, unprompted.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Energy Transfer, the operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline, accused Greenpeace USA and International of playing a central role in organizing the resistance to the pipeline at Standing Rock in 2016 and 2017.
    Simmone Shah, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Allen cited a particularly slick double play Albies turned recently.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 10 May 2025
  • Wooden tools may periodically need to be treated with beeswax to keep them smooth and slick.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • In the book, Stewart shares advice on topics such as growing produce and arranging flowers.
    Claire Murashima, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Before the repeal, Soto was arranging for free Spanish-language weddings in Little Havana and building up support for Dade County to retire its English-only policy.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Designing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/designing. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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