expressing

present participle of express
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as in squeezing
to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of except as a fun event at festivals, nowadays people do not make wine by expressing grapes with their feet

Synonyms & Similar Words

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of expressing The 31-year-old took to X to share the news with her legion of Hotties, expressing her gratitude and excitement for the opportunity. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2026 This season is very much about expressing your personal style and wearing things in different ways. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026 That afternoon, nearly 10,000 people, according to the Spanish government officials in Madrid, gathered in the capital to protest Maricarmen’s eviction, while also expressing their frustration over the growing difficulties in finding housing. — Pau Mosquera, CNN Money, 27 Sep. 2026 Rinkēvičs said Latvia hopes military activities will give way to a political solution and the restoration of global energy supplies, while expressing skepticism about the prospects for negotiations with Tehran and Moscow. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Still, Sheeran carried on with his tour over the weekend, addressing the controversy and expressing a middling stance on Israel’s war in Gaza. — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026 Over the same period, the share expressing disapproval increased from 6% to 69%. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026 Ahead of the game, his father shared a heartfelt post on X, expressing his pride in Cam’s perseverance. — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026 Paxton had argued that the law-school clinic was not a classroom but a workplace, and that Fisher was punished not for expressing political views but because her cursing and volume had disrupted clinic business. — Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expressing
Verb
  • Weeks after publicly voicing his displeasure with Primetime, Chris Hansen has finally watched the biopic and is still unimpressed.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2026
  • While most coaches apply a 24-hour rule to losses, Kiffin did not hold back Wednesday from voicing his displeasure over the fact LSU had just played in Oxford for a second consecutive season as a result of the league moving to a nine-game schedule.
    — Mike Griffith, AJC.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Moreover, the short extension of the trade armistice only underscores its fragility; Beijing is still squeezing flows of rare earths to extract concessions from the US and coerce its allies, including Japan.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2026
  • That high pressure and the burgeoning nor’easter are squeezing the air between them, increasing wind speeds along the East Coast.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • While leather jackets have a deep history and utilitarian roots, the piece has become a signifying element of alternative style and edgy, punk sensibility.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Elisabeth Moss plays Atwood’s heroine, Offred, a name signifying that she has been assigned to Commander Fred Waterford, though her real name is June.
    — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
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
  • In 2013 the agency issued a rule saying the exclusion should apply only when an orphan drug is actually used for the rare condition it was designated for.
    — John Mildenberger, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Pattinson throws his whole being into embodying the ringmaster rapidly losing control of his circus.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • However, after embodying fussy dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock for Phantom Thread in 2017, Day-Lewis was once again claiming to be done with show business.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In December 2022 and October 2023, Reiber signed government paperwork falsely stating the company was independent and had no external owner, according to the complaint.
    — Anniek Bao,Dan Mangan, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Sunday, a caller reported hearing two men quarreling and someone stating that a person would be taken into custody.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Per the Season 4 logline, Dwight (Stallone) fights to legitimize his empire and protect his crew as corrupt politicians, dangerous new enemies, and a crushing personal loss hit from every direction.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Boston is likely to start two left-handers in the series, and the Yankees will surely want to deploy lefty-crushing outfielder Heliot Ramos in both games.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But the less strictly technical procedure Serra describes is analogous to operations at stake in Jonas’s own work, implying that the act of measurement by walking and seeing is tacitly existential.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Manuel Bompard, a deputy of the French National Assembly who is also a member of France Unbowed, rebuked Macron by name for implying that his party was responsible for the chaos.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Expressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expressing. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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