kneading

present participle of knead

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kneading
Verb
  • Taken together, the answers provided a sort of battle-damage assessment of the current moment, the kind undertaken while everyone is still patting themselves to figure out which parts survived the explosion intact.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That’s cute, today’s masters of the universe will chuckle while patting your head.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Across the room, bakers are molding the graham cracker crusts, adding a sweet, buttery scent to the wafting citrus.
    Nila Do Simon, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But the coach has a track record of molding young players into valuable assets.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Starting pitchers have to face the same batters two or three times, forming a game plan to keep hitters guessing and then executing it.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Georgia really is forming an identity on offense.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Of those, about 44,000 were working adults and 42,000 were working for an employer, according to the report.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Singaporean transit company ComfortDelGro, meanwhile, is working with Pony AI to explore offering robotaxis, while Lyft is collaborating with Baidu to test its Apollo Go self-driving cars in Europe.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • But Judge Subramanian said today he is still allowed to consider the evidence when fashioning the sentence.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • His newest installment centers on Hunnam as Gein, the infamous serial killer known for fashioning human body parts as furniture and clothing.
    Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Kneading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kneading. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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