DIMPLING Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

dimpling

verb

present participle of dimple

as in denting

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Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Oil prices were little changed Wednesday as worries over Middle East supply disruptions keep the market on edge, with attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz and Saudi energy facilities denting sentiment.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
The Fed’s problem is that its best tool for fighting inflation doesn’t seem to be denting the demand for AI inputs.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of denting

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While both sides declined to comment on the specific size of the round, which includes Canadian VC Relay Ventures, Sportico previously reported that the curling company was looking to raise up to $25 million.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Diaby scored the winner on a nifty shot from outside the box, curling it into the top right corner of the net for his second goal in his eighth MLS match.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of curling

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In those animals, a mutation in another gene can produce left-coiling individuals, but it is also associated with abnormal development.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
The stock has spent two months coiling in a narrow range, so the levels that matter are close by.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of coiling

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Watchstanders got a distress call just before noon from the good Samaritan, who told them that there was a vessel with smoke coming from it roughly five miles west of the beach, with a person waving their arms on board.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Milwaukee fans in the crowd of 40,514, many waving yellow towels and some wearing cheeseheads, brought a Badger State feel to Tropicana Field.

— Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of waving

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Its main street is lined with shops selling handblown glass and cozy knits, and colorful boats bob along its winding waterways.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
Along with that oh-so-sweet commercial success came rounds of discourse that callously dissected her racial identity, her relationship with her Blackness, and the winding history of genre in the context of American music.

— Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of winding

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As such, if the clouds manage to pull on each other and spiral into one another, the initial spiraling motion is conserved into the final rotation of the merged cloud, under the law of conservation of angular momentum.

— Edwin Alexani, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2026
The Longhorns calmed the waters in Austin with their win over Mississippi and won’t slip up against a spiraling Bulldogs team that lost QB Kamario Taylor for the season.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of spiraling

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Any normal mattress would’ve been an improvement over our current one, a sub-$300 queen-size nightmare of sloping sides and too-springy springs.

— Jaklin Romine Oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
The brush was flattened and rivulets of water ran back toward the sound, which was now miraculously some 100 yards away down a sloping bank.

— Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of sloping

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The original five were targeted for arrest after a local farmer tipped off police to a suspicious group of people meandering near the base, in vans bearing fake business logos.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
An excellent choice for meandering to the city’s biggest tourist draws.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of meandering

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