kittening

verb

present participle of kitten
as in kidding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kittening
  1. kidding
  2. kindling
  3. generating
  4. spawning
  5. propagating
  6. begetting
  7. breeding
  8. reproducing
Verb
  • The brand wasn’t kidding about its wrinkle resistance, either.
    — Vivien Lee, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2026
  • But kidding aside, AI used in the right way can make people smarter about their health, more so than most realize.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of kidding
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  • Anxiety over America’s build-out of data centers has reached Wall Street in recent days, kindling fears that the artificial intelligence boom is unsustainable.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
  • This wildfire season was supercharged by heavy rains in January that spurred vegetation growth, which became kindling when the summer heat arrived.
    — Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of kindling
Verb
  • His team is still generating preclinical data to justify doing it for the advanced maternal age group.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The study from August found that many models may avoid generating content around familiar conspiracies, but can generally be manipulated into creating misleading material.
    — Julia Boorstin, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of generating
Verb
  • The Taurids are known for spawning brilliant fireball meteors, which can flare brighter than Venus as pebble-sized pieces of debris enter and burn up in the atmosphere.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most beloved fictional detectives of all time in Sherlock Holmes, spawning countless novels, films, TV series, and so forth featuring the sleuth.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of spawning
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  • The flow of the attacks was (1) finding targets, (2) gaining code execution, (3) establishing inference, and (4) propagating to new hosts.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
  • What prevents an incorrect action from propagating into the physical process?
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of propagating
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  • The stock market crashed in 1929, begetting federal securities regulations including the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission — in 1934.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Nelson took 12 years to get the project made, and that labor-of-love aspect shows in the soulfulness and meticulous care the writer-director brings to this unsettling story of violence begetting violence, based on actual events.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of begetting
Verb
  • Monarchs typically live two to six weeks, but the butterflies that migrate to Mexico can live up to nine months and spend their lives moving south, waiting out the winter and migrating north again before breeding in the spring.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Farms spend decades breeding mink to develop unique genetic lineages.
    — Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of breeding
Verb
  • Since 2022, the parasites have been reproducing and moving farther northward.
    — Eric Michel, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026
  • On orchestral tracks like the opening scene to John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the earbuds did a decent job of reproducing the overall sound.
    — Christian de Looper, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of reproducing
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