girding

present participle of gird
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Recent Examples of girding Many who took the stage before and after her, however, spoke the language not of forgiveness but of girding for battle. Michael Luo, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girding
Verb
  • Recipe Tips From The Test Kitchen Overlap the bacon slices only slightly when wrapping the loaf.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
  • During a recent episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, 25-year-old Grace Ann was joined by her sisters Mary Holland Nader and Sarah Jane Nader as the siblings gave a life update after wrapping season 1 of Love Thy Nader.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For Hughes, the university’s mission should be about equipping students to think critically rather than insulating them from professors’ political beliefs.
    Julia Bonavita , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This collaboration will be showcased at the upcoming Building Wealth Today for Tomorrow (BWTT) Financial Empowerment Summit, now in its fifth year, where ESSENCE joins as a strategic partner to amplify the mission of equipping individuals and families with the tools to build generational wealth.
    Essence, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Leslie Cheek’s formerly private estate opened as a public garden and fine art center in 1960 and today is host to nearly a dozen gardens surrounding the family’s Georgian mansion, which has become a museum.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That rapid rise underscores the investment frenzy surrounding the leaders of a technology with the potential to transform industries and economies.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kerby Cetoute, 70 Boylston Street, Malden, furnishing false ID to law enforcement.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Each of the single-floor residences spans almost 22,000 square feet with a private elevator entry, a rooftop swimming pool, and an array of posh fittings and furnishing from grand chandeliers to veined marbles.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The designs feature a star with water and green hills; a whale in water with a white bird underneath; and three turkey feathers encircling a chickadee.
    Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In the image from 1984, Prow Knob is almost entirely surrounded by the Alsek Glacier, but by 1999, the glacier had retreated, encircling only half of the mountain.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And while OpenAI is not yet profitable, chipmakers like Nvidia and TSMC supplying the AI boom are awash in earnings amid high demand.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The United States has so far not announced any decision on supplying Tomahawks to Ukraine.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Girding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girding. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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