FUELLING Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Multiple schools are at the center of incidents in which teens are facing legal consequences for generating fake explicit images of their classmates.

— Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
The wearables generating circadian scores A growing crop of devices now translates light exposure, temperature, movement and heart-rate data into circadian metrics.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 21 July 2026

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The sky-high payments could be caused by a lot of different things — buyers wanting big cars, low credit scores pushing monthly payments higher or high credit scores allowing for bigger loans.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 24 July 2026
The bear spent several moments sniffing around the office and wandering through the building before returning to the entrance, pushing the door open again and leaving on its own.

— Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026

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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

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On July 21, Jupiter will meet with Uranus in a harmonious sextile, creating an energizing connection between our personal expansion and the changes available to us at this time.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
Some of the day-to-day involvement is gone, along with the immediacy that made the early years so energizing.

— Dustin Lemick, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

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As the tournament started though, hotels lowered their prices but were still charging above average daily rates from the same time last year.

— Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
The companies that grasp this are charging for things nobody thought to sell five years ago.

— François Candelon, Fortune, 24 July 2026

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Police said the gunfire erupted when at least two people began firing at one another on July 26 at the Bite of Seattle event, a three-day festival at the Seattle Center, an outdoor park home to the Space Needle.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 27 July 2026
The victim then crawled into another bedroom, and Perry followed him, firing another shot while standing in the doorway, according to court documents.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 July 2026

Definition of firing

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Both were booked Wednesday, triggering one-game suspensions that will keep them out of one of the club’s biggest matches of the season.

— Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
Peptides are the building blocks of more complex proteins, triggering hormones inside the body needed for growth, metabolism and healing.

— Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 23 July 2026

Definition of triggering

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