KITTENING Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

kittening

verb

present participle of kitten

as in kidding

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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

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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

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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 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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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

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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

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