KITING Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

kiting

verb

present participle of kite

as in cavorting

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Euphoric players cavorting in disbelief, long-suffering fans crumpling to their knees in tears, commentators’ voices cracking at the drama of it all.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026
McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026

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The Knicks had piled up massive scoring margins while romping through the Eastern Conference playoffs, then were just good enough in the two games in San Antonio.

— Brian Mahoney, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
The outcome was one few anticipated, with Gray Davis romping to victory in the Democratic primary, then winning the governorship in a landslide.

— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026

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Temwa Chawinga, who plays for the Kansas City Current in the NWSL, logged her fifth goal of the tournament, dancing around falling Algerian goalkeeper Chloe N’Gazi and scoring into the open net in first-half stoppage time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Totality also brought glimpses of pinkish-red prominences—fountains of plasma arcing above the sun’s surface, dancing at the moon’s edge.

— Claire Cameron & Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

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But no one suspects Becca, who walks away with an additional seven points, leaping from a tie for last place (with Izzy and Erika) to a clean win, and the fanciest, courtliest, most butterfly-est wig of them all.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
With runners on first and second in the fifth inning, Furcal made a leaping grab of pitcher Woody Williams’ liner.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

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By 2011, the New York City Police Department was stopping and frisking nearly 700,000 people a year, mostly in neighborhoods that were home to poor Black people and Latinos.

— Elizabeth Glazer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
More than a decade ago, a federal court found that the New York City Police Department had been unconstitutionally stopping and frisking Black and Hispanic residents.

— Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 May 2026

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