edging in

verb

present participle of edge in
as in inserting
to put among or between others although she likes to profess journalistic impartiality when covering a story, she seldom refrains from edging in her personal observations

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Recent Examples of edging in They're commonly used as borders and edging in gardens. — Farima Ferguson, The Spruce, 6 May 2026 And, all the while, the bigger one kept edging in a few feet at a time, cautious, but not afraid, retreating when the men rushed him with their flares, but always circling back toward the tent. — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for edging in
  1. inserting
  2. working in
  3. introducing
Verb
  • And there are trade-offs to inserting more distance between yourself and your phone as well.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Bad Bunny has rarely shied away from inserting himself into politics and current events either, so the moment stood out.
    — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of inserting
Verb
  • Vice president of player personnel Will McClay is in his 25th season working in the Dallas Cowboys’ personnel department.
    — Jon Machota, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • However, in my experience working in AI development, these algorithms lack engineering reasoning and often fail to calculate long-term architectural dynamics.
    — Ihor Hamal, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of working in
Verb
  • That’s when parents might want to consider introducing them to the PG-13 movie, a film designed to meet the needs of tweens and teens without going too far into grown-up territory.
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 29 Aug. 2026
  • He is best known for introducing the idea of dynamical similarity to cosmological systems — a mathematical realization of philosophical principles in physics.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of introducing

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