kittening

present participle of kitten

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kittening
Verb
  • Just before Thursday’s taping Pence and Emanual met outside the greenroom, and each greeted each other warmly, quickly asking each other questions about their kids before anything else, while kidding with each other about a long unpaid bet.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Okay, kidding about that last part.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Science builds on prior insights, and a handy repository of past advances serves as kindling for future discoveries.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The company first began selling digital video recorders in 1999, generating major waves in the home entertainment space.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Sclerotic growth, stagnant real wages, and crumbling public services are generating profound dissatisfaction.
    Anand Menon, Time, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Of course, even without Costner, Yellowstone would ultimately become a billion-dollar asset for Paramount, spawning seven different spinoffs.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The series, which also included Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee and Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, ran for eight seasons, ending in 1968 and spawning multiple spin-offs.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Such a blatant falsehood making it to the press conference betrays the fact that there is no limit to how false something has to be in order for this administration to resist propagating it.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 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
  • That's brought employees from many different cultures together, rather than breeding a unified corporate mindset from its founding.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Prior to being rescued, Neve was used for breeding.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The costs of reproducing living labor varied in response to struggle.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Without people in the loop, AI risks reproducing the inherent problems that it is meant to avoid, including discrimination, institutional incompetence and overall distrust.
    Gangesh Pathak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Kittening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kittening. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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