generating

present participle of generate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of generating When generating text, large language models pick each next word from a set of plausible candidates. New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026 The uneven nature seen by ALMA is likely the result of massive convective movements in the star, hot plasma rising through the star and generating shockwaves that erupt in the star's atmosphere, creating bright and hot regions. Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Emergency services have been battling wildfires driven by an intensifying El Nino pattern and a prolonged dry season, generating dense smoke that crossed into Malaysia and Brunei, according to the National Disaster Management Agency. Muhammad Hatta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Florida’s national parks welcome more than 13 million visitors annually, generating $935 million in visitor spending and supporting thousands of jobs in gateway communities. Lulu Vilas, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2026 Kraft Heinz is one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, generating approximately $25 billion in net sales in 2025. Sam Birchall, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 Emergency services have been battling fires driven by an intensifying El Nino pattern and a prolonged dry season, generating dense smoke that crossed into Malaysia and Brunei, according to the National Disaster Management Agency, or BNPB. ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 One bright spot for Labour Apart from generating growth, Burnham and Healey must address other problems that Starmer and Reeves failed to tackle. Ian King, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026 Industry advocates, however, say data centers are essential infrastructure for the AI era, supporting technological innovation, creating high-paying jobs and generating tax revenue for local communities. Greta Cross, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for generating
Verb
  • Running open-weight AI agents and programs has been gaining steam, creating shortages for desktop Macs.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The rest of the lunar surface may take on an eerie reddish-orange hue, creating an impressive 'almost blood moon'.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The issue is that AI technology iterates extremely fast, causing related equipment and computing assets to depreciate rapidly, whereas financing debts are long term, creating a maturity mismatch risk.
    , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This month, her mother’s memory-care facility was in an evacuation zone, causing many sleepless nights.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Moon enters Aries and your 5th House of Creativity, Romance, Play, and Self-Expression, bringing fresh energy to fun, confidence, desire, and artistic risk.
    Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Brooks Lee hit a two-run home run and Kody Clemens had a solo home run, bringing the Twins within 4-3.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Finite’s founder, Amy Gardner, has producing credits on the likes of And Then Come the Nightjars, La Bohème, Honeytrap, and My House, and worked on the stage productions of Nuclear Children and The Joy of Text.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Those numbers should prompt serious questions about what is happening in classrooms and whether NYC Reads — the city’s sweeping changes to reading instruction — is producing the results students need.
    Katie Pace Miles, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Candidates who struggle to provide substantive answers—or who can’t name anyone without prompting—may often show this same pattern of taking solo credit throughout the interview and beyond.
    Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Clancy then began taking Zoloft, prompting immediate difficulty, Heilbrun said, recounting the symptoms and treatments in the lead-up to the death of Clancy's children months later in January 2023.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • This mystery has tantalized scientists since Charles Darwin mused on it in 1871, spawning no shortage of competing theories about the origins of Earth’s biology around four billion years ago.
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Later in August, the salmon will begin to weaken and die after spawning.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • While doing so has helped millions of individuals access the power of electronics, the shrinking size of transistors is presenting problems at mass manufacturing scales.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Alicia McCalla, 56, a fiction writer who has been doing voice work for five years out of her home in Atlanta, decided to ignore union suggestions and clone her voice.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

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“Generating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generating. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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