GUTTERING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

guttering

verb

Definition of guttering

present participle of gutter

as in smelting

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The bearded seal is just one of the many polar species whose future is closely tied to rising temperatures and melting ice.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
What is clear is that Earth’s glaciers are melting faster as a result of warming and that melting is destabilizing these glaciers—and the mountains that buttress them.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

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Frozen meat was being thawed with water at 13 degrees above the required thawing temperature; product was removed from sink.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2026
In 2023, thawing permafrost led to a rock collapse into South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim, India, generating a wave that burst through the moraine holding back the glacial lake.

— Umesh Haritashya, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2026

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Summit has proposed capturing CO2 emissions from dozens of ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska, liquefying it under pressure and transporting it via the pipeline to North Dakota, to sequester it deep underground.

— Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register, 13 Feb. 2026
Their chemical concoction containing the bacterium is then pumped in, liquefying the rock underground.

— Kelsey Brown, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2026

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Before founding the company, al Khafaji had created data visualisation firm Silk, later acquired by Palantir.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
To those paying attention to what’s transpired over the last few years, the debate playing out online is not a surprise, said Brian Levin, founding director at the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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