fazing

present participle of faze

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fazing
Verb
  • The Bears lost this matchup in embarrassing fashion last year as the Commanders completed a Hail Mary with time expiring.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The games themselves are embarrassing enough to watch.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This brings the total to more than $2 million raised to influence the outcome of Referendum 310, funding a wave of misleading ads aimed at confusing voters.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The British and American versions also have different plot points, further confusing the matter, but the score has endured and developed a cult-following.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rapid escalation of trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies has sunk stocks, rattling investors and industries by igniting fears of a repeat of the tit-for-tat tariff battle in spring, when levies on Chinese and American imports soared to around 145% and 120% respectively.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Two sisters with a tragic story are said to linger upstairs at Langston’s Western Wear, and unexplained voices and rattling glassware have been heard at Gabriella’s Italian Grill, a Prohibition-era building with a gangsters and gambling history.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The dog recognizes that something is amiss, but isn’t capable of understanding what’s really bothering Todd.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The injury that will sideline Herro to begin this season is one that had been bothering him for a few months.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The code, though, is currently often replete with disconcerting troubles.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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