indicating

present participle of indicate
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as in signifying
to serve as a sign or symptom of his attitude seems to indicate that he has little interest in the project

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Recent Examples of indicating Elordi may be indicating that Levinson is taking Euphoria season 3 in the direction of the single-character specials that aired between seasons 1 and 2 in 2020 and 2021. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025 Home improvement stores have been moving into the Halloween space, with the survey indicating 14% of Halloween shoppers intend to visit stores like Home Depot, Lowe's and Tractor Supply. Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025 The administration had highlighted several arrests for carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents – but the judge responded that federal grand juries had refused to indict at least three of those arrested, indicating a lack of probable cause. Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025 Dianna Russini of The Athletic broke down plenty of reports indicating which NFL teams are targeting what position to bolster their rosters. James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025 The final women’s window displays a foulard created for Bergdorf Goodman on a green backdrop with a thistle flower motif surrounded by globes indicating where Loro Piana fibers are found. David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025 Meiner has pointed to statistics indicating dips in major crimes. Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025 Studies by Princeton University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory showed that current price volatility for electricity will continue to increase as more forms of renewable energy come online, indicating that the economic benefits of the application will persist or grow in the future. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025 The Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) remains safely above the zero level, indicating that TJX remains in a period of accumulation, which could provide further support to additional price gains. David Keller, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indicating
Verb
  • After losing a tables match to The Hardys, Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley left their boots in the ring, signifying the end of their careers.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Another map visualizes clean-up locations throughout the city, with the size of each dot signifying the amount of debris that was cleared from each site.
    Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Friends alum also spoke about how the tabloids implying her personal timeline for starting a family wasn’t true.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That small sample, however, revealed massive amounts of unprotected data, implying that far more may still be exposed worldwide.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The car is now known as the 718—a reference to the Porsche that won the Targa Florio race in 1959 and 1960—with the Boxster and Cayman names denoting the vehicle’s body style.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Streamlining communication and clearly denoting important or urgent information can go a long way in helping families navigate a sea of information.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At the end of September, Jason admitted on another episode of their podcast that the brothers' mom, Donna Kelce, has been subtly hinting for more grandkids while talking with Coach Deion Sanders.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But aside from hinting that there might be more gigs in the future, the reliably inscrutable singer did not fall for the bait of follow-up questions and left it at that.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The shower peaks around the monthly new moon phase, meaning that there'll be no natural light pollution to ruin the cosmic show.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Approximately 48% of the aircraft positions reviewed were MLAT (multilateration) data, meaning that some geographic data points were recorded less frequently than with other signal types.
    Natasha Bertrand, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But in the last decade, research on ultraprocessed foods has challenged that notion, suggesting that these foods may drive us to eat more.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Furthermore, big banks — bellwethers for economic activity — such as JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Goldman Sachs, beat earnings expectations, suggesting that fundamentals are still sound.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Indicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indicating. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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