kittening

verb

present participle of kitten
as in kidding

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  1. kidding
  2. kindling
  3. generating
  4. spawning
  5. propagating
  6. begetting
  7. breeding
  8. reproducing
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  • 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
  • But Guthrie wasn’t kidding, slipping into a yellow gingham dress before joining her co-hosts on the Today Show Plaza to greet visitors.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
Definition of kidding
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  • 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
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of kindling
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  • Even computers physically disconnected from networks could communicate by generating patterns of heat that act like Morse code, OpenAI’s Noam Brown recently suggested.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
  • From beginning to end 143 films will screen many of them are generating some Oscar buzz.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of generating
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  • The popular show took on a life of its own, however, becoming his day job and spawning a Netflix series.
    — Lily Moayeri, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The area is still going strong with Hurricane Simon and appears on the verge of spawning another one that will really ramp up in strength, Klotzbach said.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 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
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  • But with people in charge, these animals will also likely be excluded from breeding and have less of a chance of passing their genes on.
    — Alida de Flamingh, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The buck, tongue lolling, looked exhausted from chasing and breeding his doe.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of breeding
Verb
  • Turning chemical signals into digital instructions Recreating smell presents a different challenge from reproducing images or sound.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The likelier explanation, Seth said, is that the models have absorbed a great deal of information about how humans describe and respond to pain and are reproducing it.
    — Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of reproducing
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