excising

present participle of excise

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for excising
Verb
  • Toyota pinpointed jobs where robots could make the work better by doing things like eliminating unsafe activities and physically taxing jobs.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Tax Notes contributing editor Robert Goulder discusses how Pope Leo XIV’s American citizenship creates a unique tax issue and how the United States may try to avoid taxing the pope.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The group routinely calls for removing books at public schools and played a role in Scottsdale Unified School District's decision to pull 16 books from its library shelves in February.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Tips To Keep Your Towels Mascara-Free The best way to keep makeup from staining towels is by thoroughly removing the makeup first.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And, just in time, online sports betting companies for the first time are imposing per-bet fees on Illinoisans as the companies seek to pass along new taxes imposed by Democrats in Springfield.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Trump is trying to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law historically used for imposing economic sanctions and other penalties on foreign enemies.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Crucially, there are real-world exploits like University of California, San Diego’s (UCSD) Imprompter, which had nearly an 80% success rate in extracting personal data via obfuscated prompts.
    Camellia Chan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • So Cali reached over, extracting it, before downing the rest.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Flexibility alone isn’t enough—promotion criteria must avoid penalizing remote or hybrid workers and career pathways should accommodate different life and caregiving stages without stalling advancement.
    Cynthia Pong, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • That delay reflects the high stakes and complex constitutional questions surrounding the case, which has been viewed as a test of how far state officials can go in penalizing corporate misconduct.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Three surveillance photos included in court documents previously reviewed by McClatchy News show Muchimba wearing USPS clothing while withdrawing cash.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
  • By 2008, Americans were withdrawing, and combat deaths were subsiding to their lowest level since the start of the occupation.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cotality, a data research company, issues yearly wildfire risk reports assessing the state of the wildfire insurance industry and the risk of damaging wildfires for certain parts of the United States.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Moyes takes his time assessing and signing off on targets and is notoriously picky.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But some lawmakers say that argument is baseless and that yanking the grants has left the state less equipped to prevent tragedies like this week’s attack at Annunciation Catholic School.
    Curt Devine, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
  • See, for example, Trump yanking the security clearances of former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Chris Krebs for his defense of the 2020 election as securely run.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 30 Aug. 2025
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“Excising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excising. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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