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hoping

verb

present participle of hope
as in wishing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoping
  1. wishing
  2. looking
  3. dreaming
  4. aiming
  5. planning
  6. proposing
  7. intending
  8. trying
Verb
  • Cure should not mean handing a young adult a treatment summary and wishing them well.
    — Vidya Puthenpura, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Those who remain and continue to support the most corrupt administration in our nation's history are here, wishing for our bakery to burn to the ground.
    — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of wishing
Verb
  • Independent producers often find the book, attach the director, and build the financing plan, and only then does the project arrive looking viable and de-risked.
    — Stuart Ford, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
  • If there’s a chance the remains of that pilot are there, DPAA will keep looking.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of looking
Verb
  • Critical to healthy brain functioning is a dreaming state of unconsciousness called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep.
    — Mike McRae September 17, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
  • That’s almost eight months of talking, worrying and dreaming about the Bears.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of dreaming
Verb
  • According to reports in September 2025, CATL’s European general manager Matt Shen informed that the company had been aiming to start production in late 2025 or early 2026.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • That means aiming the nozzle down the hair shaft, not at it from every angle, and keeping heat in check.
    — Valeriya Chupinina, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of aiming
Verb
  • As talks between the two sides continue — with the expectation that the situation could come to a head as soon as Sunday night — antimerger activists are planning a series of rallies in Oakland, Los Angeles and New York.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Weida, a passenger on the bus, was planning to celebrate his 32nd birthday with his family this Saturday.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of planning
Verb
  • Vought responded to these setbacks by proposing new grant funding rules that would make political considerations key determinants in which grants get funded.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Some Tennessee lawmakers went further, proposing to prohibit providers from administering mRNA vaccines altogether.
    — Sally C. Pipes, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of proposing
Verb
  • In episode three, mercenaries rock up to the Reacher gang’s secret hideout intending to kill them all.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Portman first proposed its revamp of Amsterdam Walk in 2023, intending to raze the aging warehouses to build a more dense and vertical project centered on apartments.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of intending
Verb
  • As this is not always possible, there can be competition among rainmakers trying to discredit each other, said 30-year-old Kilindon Simiyu, another of the village's rainmakers.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, two coaches making almost identical money were standing on opposite sidelines Saturday night trying to revive two programs with almost identical problems.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of trying
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“Hoping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoping. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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