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verb

present participle of love
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Recent Examples of loving
Adjective
Wilson plays Marie, Penny’s loving mother. Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025 Christy costars Ben Foster as Martin's manager-turned-husband James, initially depicted as loving and supportive (one shot shows Christy gleefully leaping into his arms after winning a match), but eventually revealed as possessive and dangerous. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
The actress, who has also appeared on Melrose Place and in movies such as Couples Retreat, played the romantic, optimistic Charlotte to Sarah Jessica Parker's pun-loving writer Carrie Bradshaw and Cynthia Nixon's smart and cynical Miranda Hobbes. Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025 Love is not neutral – it’s shaped by power, by capitalism, by who has historically been allowed to be seen loving and being loved. Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for loving
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loving
Adjective
  • In Schorr’s photograph, the duo, played by Julia Garner and Cole Escola, is more ambiguous, more gender-flouting, projecting an air of affectionate defiance.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • However, when given affectionate touch from their partner, these feelings significantly reduced.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But Eliasen is careful not to let scope creep derail initial implementations.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Appreciation means valuing the struggle of learning, not despite its difficulty but because of it.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Other streamers have found their own ways to account for expensive new sports rights, valuing games’ ability to bring in supplemental audiences who have proven likely to stick around.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trumps otherwise basked in the royal limelight on Wednesday, visibly enjoying the pomp and ceremony, which included a royal gun salute, carriage procession through Windsor and guard of honor.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The league's punitive new CBA was designed to limit the richest teams from enjoying a significant cash flow advantage over its poorest clubs.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Young Pope star was seen caressing Coan’s back and whispering in her ear.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The singer was spotted in pictures shared to social media, gently caressing the baby bump of his romantic partner.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • Chicharito also benefitted from his market placement in LA, in his case mainly due to the proximity to an adoring Mexican fanbase throughout Southern California.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • In some cases, like his calls to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, Mr. Trump has promised changes that many of his most adoring fans in Europe have stopped well short of.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, for all the meticulous panning, the transition of power at the top of the City hierarchy is very different to what was expected to happen when Guardiola arrived in 2016.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Potashnick took skepticism as an invitation to share his process, bringing his roughly 100,000 TikTok followers behind the scenes and on frequent farm trips, offering a glimpse of his team’s meticulous operation.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Open Doors, which monitors Christian persecution around the world, claimed some 70 were, Monday night, killed while worshiping at a funeral service, with the rest slain in the villages of Potodu and Ntoyo in the DRC’s North Kivu region.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Our right-wing Christians are fighting to turn away the most desperate foreign refugees, all while worshiping Jesus, who was once a foreign refugee.
    John Fugelsang September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Loving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loving. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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