excising

Definition of excisingnext
present participle of excise

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for excising
Verb
  • Taylor said that not all new construction will add students to a school’s taxing district.
    Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
  • By taxing those inputs, the policy effectively penalizes domestic production.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • As the reservoirs of the Republican and Democratic voters evaporate, independents are becoming a stream of optimism for removing the wasteful and destructive policy of the two-party war that is pushing us further apart.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
  • How to get rid of fruit flies To quickly eliminate fruit flies, start by thoroughly cleaning your kitchen and removing overripe or rotting fruits and vegetables.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 21 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Trump responded to the Supreme Court ruling by imposing a 10%, then 15%, global tariff under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The president reacted quickly to the Supreme Court’s ruling against his International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs on Friday by imposing 10 percent universal baseline duties—a figure that was augmented to 15 percent over the weekend.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Together, these modifications are designed to enhance combustion efficiency and improve energy recovery within a hybrid drivetrain architecture, extracting more usable output from each combustion cycle while supporting electrified performance.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Beethoven’s music improves Goethe, extracting its humanity and frailty, and Dudamel’s performance probed its profound inevitability of good triumphing over evil.
    Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • More than 80 percent of Longchamp’s suppliers are rated via EcoVadis, and procurement teams work with lower-performing partners to drive improvements, rather than simply penalizing them.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Several policy priorities followed from Miller’s long-standing fixations, such as denying immigrants work authorization while their legal cases were pending and penalizing applicants who used public benefits.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Lupel continued working to get Dotson’s rape conviction overturned until withdrawing as his attorney in 1986.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The group later held a symbolic disarmament ceremony in northern Iraq and began withdrawing its remaining fighters from Turkey.
    Suzan Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Across the globe, nations were assessing how the high court’s ruling might affect them.
    Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • However, the federal government was already involved in the repair and assessing the impact of the leak through the Environmental Protection Agency.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Hotel video footage showed the pair forcing entry into the hotel by yanking on a lobby door and breaking the lock.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The yellow bucket of a heavy construction excavator crashed down onto the roof of the vacant home at Parade Park, yanking it into a heap of split plaster and lumber.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Excising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excising. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.

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