laying down

present participle of lay down
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laying down
Verb
  • The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts states from enacting laws that conflict with ERISA on regulated benefit plans.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Treasury yields edged lower Monday, extending recent declines, after the Empire State Manufacturing Index came in far below what Wall Street economists had expected and traders looked ahead to the Federal Reserve enacting an interest rate cut later this week.
    Pia Singh,Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While a majority of fans seem to enjoy professional wrestling, there are others who focus on the tribalism between WWE and AEW, declaring one side is much better than the other.
    Jeremy Hanna, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Hawaii’s acting governor, Sylvia Luke, issued the emergency proclamation on Friday afternoon, declaring a state of emergency across the entire state.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Despite specifying various antics with pills, a belt-as-noose, and a gun, Cloud has given him no real demons to explore.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • IEPs set out guidelines for the special education the school will provide the child, specifying the specific accommodations, type of instruction, and behavioral plans that will be used to support the student.
    IndyStar, IndyStar, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The cost of obtaining them will very quickly amount to billions of dollars, which could force Musk to pay by relinquishing shares.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His mother would soon pass, and Agee hadn’t had the opportunity to find a new place to live after relinquishing his apartment pre-Suicide Squad.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This has become the norm, with the club’s outstanding start appearing more like the aberration with each passing day.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Granite Hills had just 59 yards passing at the break with 21 of those coming on the last play of the half.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Johnn Macdougall/Getty Images German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has dismissed claims that Russian drones entered Polish airspace by accident, asserting in a Bundestag address that the flight paths were intentional and part of a broader pattern of provocation.
    Amanda Castro Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Just as Lachlan is entrenched at Fox, at Paramount another scion, David Ellison, is asserting himself, preparing for what will likely be a decades-long run atop a legendary studio and the owner of CBS.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Taken together, these signals show that resilience is not a marginal concern but a defining lens for value creation.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The West may think of his nation in terms of space-age technology and zeitgeist-defining cultural phenomena like KPop Demon Hunters, though in truth South Korea battles the lowest birth rate, top suicide rate, and highest youth unemployment of any developed nation.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This is less computationally intensive than actually rendering all three of those frames; it can be combined with MetalFX's existing temporal upscaling, boosting performance even further.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But the speed came from all three levels of Green Bay’s defense, rendering Washington’s offense almost inoperative.
    Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Laying down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laying%20down. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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