GRAVITATING Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

gravitating

verb

present participle of gravitate

as in preferring

to be drawn or attracted He always gravitated to the fantasy section of the bookstore. She tends to gravitate towards people who share her interest in music.

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Recent Examples of gravitating At the time, youth culture was gravitating toward super slims, flares and bell-bottoms. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026 Arab Americans, who were evenly split in the 2024 presidential race, already were gravitating to Democrats. — Laura Beveridge, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026 Some people are even gravitating toward religious organizations and turning to mystical practices like psychics and love spells to find a partner. — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 Lately, Skarsgård seems to be doing the same, gravitating toward roles that, at their core, interrogate the impact his looks have on other people. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Many younger consumers are gravitating toward physical products that offer experiences their phones can’t match, which happens to open a door for real family bonding. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026 Younger Americans, meanwhile, are still gravitating toward the country’s most populous states and cities. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 And my whole goal in writing that story was to try to explain the American kids that were gravitating towards ISIS. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026 More tailored than stark black and more refined than charcoal gray, French Press Coffee belongs to a new category of moody neutrals that upscale interiors have been gravitating toward. — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 1 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Calibrating policy under current conditions is complicated by Warsh's push for a more mercurial Fed that avoids signaling where policy is heading, preferring for markets to take their own signals from incoming data.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
But Frediani points out that there are often different levels of concern in people with type 2 diabetes, reflected by some people preferring to sleep in on weekends versus having enough energy for those days.

— Ricardo Correa, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of preferring

Verb

Despite the recent trend favoring Republicans among previously undecided voters in the survey, all seven Democratic candidates are still viewed more favorably by independents.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026
But since the finale was released, the conversation among fans and players online has pointed to a number of discrepancies in the way each team played and questions of production favoring the Orange team and its roster of veteran players.

— Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of favoring

Verb

In remote ranching outposts across the treeless plateau of Chubut province, life revolves around tending flocks on steppes and shearing sheep in sheds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
American fringetree produces separate male and female plants, with the males tending to be showier, though both produce a spectacular display.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of tending

Verb

Her hours used to be filled with calls, note-taking and lengthy card disclosures.

— Lindsay Dodgson, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg exited Friday night's game against the Indiana Pacers with an apparent shoulder injury after taking a hard foul while attempting a layup.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of taking

Verb

Social convention dictates that you not be caught liking Hoffman’s posts or following her yourself.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
His tool, Reverse Engineer Anything, or REA, lets artificial intelligence agents pull apart programs and reconstitute them to their users’ liking.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of liking

Verb

An expensive dance Ryan Mahan sits in a courtyard outside the pavilion, enjoying a break after running his mouth for an hour straight.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
This family faithfully served their country while living at the highest echelons of their society and enjoying the best creature comforts.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of enjoying

Verb

When voters vote, their motive for selecting a particular candidate cannot be questioned.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026
Proposition 5 breaks up that process into two parts, prioritizing the voters’ right to oust an official before selecting a replacement.

— Times staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of selecting

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