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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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
Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin, meanwhile, became the first American team to win a medal in Olympic mixed doubles curling, taking silver.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 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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Many of those violet-clad, towel-waving fans packed Chase Center for a Game 4 watch party.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
The cast members, if not running to de-wig and get into their next costume, can be seen dancing, waving and greeting others buried in that centre-stage circus.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026

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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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Elsewhere, long-running demonstrations in Albania and Serbia have focused more on anti-corruption, spiraling into movements seeking to topple each country’s government.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
That’s the highest band measured by Bank of America Institute’s Taylor Bowley and Jon Kaplan in their recent survey of spiraling childcare costs.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 22 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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