kittening

present participle of kitten

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kittening
Verb
  • Just kidding - but honestly not sold on him being the best player on a championship caliber team.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The Aggies coach wasn’t kidding.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There's a lot of kindling around, and there's a lot of like newspapers that can catch on fire.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, video-generating software like OpenAI’s Sora showcase the inevitability that AI content will funnel into the mainstream.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But while the plants are generating increasingly widespread enthusiasm, dark events are beginning to overshadow the news.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Back to the Future was a massive success, spawning two sequels, while Family Ties ended in 1989.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The two-day trial of ten people accused of sexist cyberbullying against France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron by propagating fake and malicious claims about her sexuality and gender began in Paris on Monday.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of waves propagating through a barrier has been around for a long time, since before the existence of quantum mechanics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Schwanz pointed out how the work goes back to breeding resilience—not just breeding crops that can do more with less or maximizing yield—but true resilience for everyone.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Alpha Genesis’s red-meat pivot is emblematic of the desperate position in which the primate-breeding industry now finds itself.
    Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Also like the natural world, the Tyranids are patient, slowly devouring the edges of the galaxy and reproducing in unthinkable numbers in the darkness of space.
    Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Women’s free labor in the home subsidized the profits of employers because workers’ families bore the cost of reproducing the future labor force.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Kittening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kittening. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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