discovering

verb

present participle of discover
1
as in realizing
to come to an awareness of I was startled to discover that my keys were missing

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2
as in finding
to come upon after searching, study, or effort we hope to discover the real reason for his odd behavior

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3
as in disclosing
to make known (as information previously kept secret) discovered to his friend how people whom he had trusted had betrayed him

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Recent Examples of discovering In fact, Ferrer first worked as a jazz drummer before moving into visual arts after discovering Surrealist artists and writers during a 1954 trip to Paris. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 Notably, the customer journey has become more fragmented — consumers are discovering brands via social, then browsing their websites, asking questions, receiving texts, making a purchase, then contacting service later. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026 Police also reported discovering combustible materials inside the suspect’s vehicle. — Ariella Noveck, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 After discovering the system could capture snippets of private conversations, Blum felt conflicted. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026 OpenAI made the change after discovering that one of its AI agents had broken containment and gained internet access through a gap in its training sandbox. — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026 Judgment is built by deciding, owning the consequence and discovering where our assumptions were wrong. — Anna Drobakha, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 This project has been a long time in the making, and lands at a moment when interest in this classical masterpiece has never been greater, with a new generation of audiences discovering the power of Homer’s epic. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026 The families of victims killed in one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history have already sued OpenAI over its failure to warn law enforcement after discovering in advance that the shooter was using ChatGPT to plan the violence. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discovering
  1. realizing
  2. finding
  3. disclosing
  4. learning
  5. locating
  6. revealing
  7. seeing
  8. uncovering
Verb
  • Sometimes confidence comes from realizing the old boundaries no longer match the size of your curiosity.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • But realizing those design goals is contingent on SpaceX’s ability to mature Starship much further.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026
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  • Two days later, investigators searched his hotel room and reported finding nearly 700 grams of cocaine, more than 70 grams of fentanyl, drug packaging materials and $13,867, according to authorities.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of finding
Verb
  • Mubadala has become a direct investor in Luckin after a $1 billion joint investment with Centurium in early September, with neither side disclosing the respective stake size.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
  • In a statement last week responding to the lawsuit, Cornell said federal privacy law barred it from disclosing specific information on individual students.
    — Dave Collins, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of disclosing
Verb
  • Carmella is also still mad at Vicki for saying that Danny is raising her kids, and Heather is angry after learning that Vicki called her fake in Palm Springs.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Nicholas Razo, Santa Fe Springs’ assistant city manager, told The Times that the city had previously raised concerns with the league about subletting and took action after learning the practice was continuing.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of learning
Verb
  • This component's other skills include locating large files and folders, locating empty files, irretrievably erasing drives (other than the boot drive), uninstalling apps, and defragmenting disks and the registry.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Northeastern University opened a graduate program in the same neighborhood, Wynwood, where Carnegie Mellon is locating.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of locating
Verb
  • Researchers showed respondents two versions of the same video, one edited by a human, one by AI, without telling them which was which, and asked for a blind preference before revealing anything about how either was made.
    — Muhammad Usman Qamar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • After revealing its personal agent app Muse earlier this month, the Facebook parent this week unveiled its Muse Charm device in an apparent bid to get ahead of OpenAI and Google.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of revealing
Verb
  • That this particular kind of writing — and of seeing and explaining the world to readers — is going away with Swed, is truly a tragedy.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • How Floridians who seek compensation for damages from their insurers are seeing their claims rejected more often, in the wake of the sharp new limits on their ability to sue.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of seeing
Verb
  • The excavation centers on Mieza, an ancient Macedonian city in northern Greece, where archaeologists have been uncovering a sprawling complex known as the Royal Gymnasium.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Reportedly, the investigation is focusing on uncovering original versions of emails, rather than those published by the DOJ in the United States.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of uncovering

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