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fueling

verb

variants or fuelling
present participle of fuel
as in generating

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Recent Examples of fueling Delivering zero-emission fueling operations, the vehicle ensures reliable and efficient fuel transfer. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fueling
  1. generating
  2. pushing
  3. powering
  4. energizing
  5. charging
  6. electrifying
  7. firing
  8. triggering
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  • Others require deep intelligence—analyzing complex financial information, generating code from ambiguous requirements or weighing competing factors.
    — Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Did that decision from a candidate generating some buzz alter the Red Wings’ plans?
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of generating
Verb
  • The president was pushing back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceXAI's Elon Musk to have greater government oversight of AI.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
  • With yields now notching over 5%, longer-term interest rates across the economy are increasing, pushing up borrowing costs on the national debt as a result.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of pushing
Verb
  • The iGen 2200 has no problem powering many of the essential appliances in your RV simultaneously and has 2200 starting watts of power.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • Take the examples of the second season of Amazon Prime’s Fallout and Netflix’s first season of Ransom Canyon, which made headlines last year by powering their base camps with solar power.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
Definition of powering
Verb
  • The bold clarity of the performances was energizing, but the wailing sometimes sounded like parody grief.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Sunlight streams in brighter, energizing the home, and your whole exterior gets a fresh lift.
    — Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of energizing
Verb
  • Rather than abandon the festival or begin charging admission, organizers adjusted.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The charging instrument, known as an information, omits references to the specific acts that the state alleges are the basis for the disruption offense, the attorney, Tiffany Burks, wrote in the motion that was filed on Wednesday.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of charging
Verb
  • At the center of it all is an electrifying performance by Robert Pattinson as Hansen, a man who aspires to powerful anchor machismo but is slowly falling apart.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Its bare bones prose and electrifying pictures preserve, honor and celebrate the people, places and ideas responsible for Rosales’ sentimental education.
    — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of electrifying
Verb
  • The crackdown — which included police firing tear gas at demonstrators — comes ahead of December’s general election in which President Adama Barrow will seek a controversial third term.
    — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of firing Norvell during last year’s 5-7 campaign, FSU beefed up and restructured the front office.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of firing
Verb
  • In that incident, a runaway truck struck Enbridge’s Line 5 at a valve site, triggering a natural-gas-liquids spill.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Crucially, Kuran and Sunstein’s framework does not require the triggering claim to be false.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of triggering

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“Fueling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fueling. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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