hoping

present participle of hope

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoping
Verb
  • Thanking guests for coming, wishing them a safe journey home, or announcing a final toast can encourage a natural exit.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Here the most enthusiastic customers often came not from primitive fossil capital but from fossil capital in general—companies not producing but consuming fossil fuels in the process of money-making and wishing, for whatever reason, to even them out with credits.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The British company Lumie, which specializes in modern-looking light-therapy lamps, recently launched the Lumie Dash ($225), a compact, ten-thousand-lux model that comes in friendly colors like terra-cotta and pistachio.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In the meantime, the day-to-day work is on us—looking at our money honestly, making strategic moves, and refusing to let an unfair system keep us from building something better for ourselves and the next generation.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Withdrawal from tricyclic antidepressants may also lead to nightmares, while withdrawal from SSRIs and SNRIs seems to intensify dreaming.
    Stacey Colino, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That's when the concept of dreaming as a neurocognitive process first came about, per the APA.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The team plans to utilize their new experimental platform to investigate other twisted 2D materials, aiming to identify new candidates for future technologies.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Tapestry laid out its new strategic vision in September, aiming to build Coach to a $10 billion business by widening the definition of its target audience and essentially going after everybody who might conceivably buy a handbag, not just the people who bought one last year.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The next year, eleven journalists went on to form the White House Correspondents’ Association in response to rumors that the Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents was planning on selecting which reporters were invited to presidential news conferences.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 7 Nov. 2025
  • They had been alerted that Running Fence was planning to enter the ocean despite having no permit.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Actually, retail has to go beyond products because brands are proposing something different because our customers are expecting something different.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
  • There was a similar outcry after Celine Song's Materialists, which (spoiler) ends with Chris Evans proposing with a daisy ring.
    Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • After the death of his addict father, Ethan heads back to see if there’s any money to be made from selling his home, intending to stay, only briefly, with his aunt Sarah, Metcalf’s character, a Brunhilde of the high prairie.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Combs’ lawyers filed a two-page court document on Monday, October 20 intending to appeal his conviction.
    Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Someone trying to keep the clicks coming to make a living, or a leader of the repressed?
    Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • My body’s in a C shape, trying to track the aim.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
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“Hoping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoping. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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