littering

present participle of litter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for littering
Verb
  • 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
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    Southern California Weather Report, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Oracle & Artificial Intelligence All signs point to artificial intelligence as being a transformative tool for businesses and households, generating substantial economic benefits.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Why Healthcare Needs a Data Overhaul Healthcare systems are generating more data than ever before, from electronic health records and lab results to imaging scans, insurance claims, and even patient updates from wearable devices.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Pat Kelsey wasn't kidding about wanting the smoke.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In 2019, Lebanese depositors discovered that their banking system had, in effect, just been kidding about those savings accounts.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Later, a geyser erupted, spawning eyeballs that float upward in bubbles.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Continue propagating mature clumps by division in spring.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Ask how your system updates its models, handles evolving processes and prevents mistakes from propagating.
    Karpagam Narayanan, Forbes.com, 3 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
  • By reproducing the tachocline, scientists now have a foundation for more reliable forecasts of solar activity.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Preliminary data seemed to show that the Iberian harvester ants, or Messor ibericus, were creating hybrid worker ants by reproducing with another species of harvester ant called Messor structor in the Mediterranean region.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And the American redstart — a jetblack little fellow with orange splashes — pretty much stopped breeding here in the early 2000s.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • They’re spotted foraging on golf courses and even breeding in suburban wetlands near Chicago.
    Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Littering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littering. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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