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variants also louring
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verb (1)

present participle of lower
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verb (2)

variants also louring
present participle of lower

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lowering
Adjective
Tebboune also shared a message to his Facebook page, as the country's leader announced a day-long national mourning beginning Friday evening, involving the lowering of the national flag. Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025 The water authority spent roughly $200 million on a pump station to make those transfers, before the lowering of the water level prevented using it. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025 The die-off was attributed to both the voracious carp and the annual lowering of water levels by the lake’s owner, FirstLight Energy. John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
The preliminary numbers in 2024 show that statewide education efforts in Missouri appear to have been especially successful in lowering the number of teens dying from fentanyl. Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025 Hegseth has accused the military of lowering standards in the past and vowed to raise fighting standards. Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025 In October, things get a little better, with ESPN and Fox bundling their services for $40 combined, lowering the total for that month and November to $74. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025 Wayne had bagged a good ram about 3 o’clock that after noon, then had worked until dark lowering the ram down a series of cliffs and ledges on the north end of Bennett Mountain. Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025 The lock serves as an access point to Michigan's inland waterway in northern Michigan, raising and lowering the Cheboygan River for watercraft to pass through. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025 This is not about lowering expectations or coddling employees. Ruth Oh Reitmeier, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Democrat Alisa Simmons opposed lowering the tax rate, noting that this would be the third year of lowering taxes. Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025 The changes to the margin forecast resulted in Salesforce lowering its GAAP EPS outlook for the year, but increasing its non-GAAP outlook for the year. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
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The preliminary numbers in 2024 show that statewide education efforts in Missouri appear to have been especially successful in lowering the number of teens dying from fentanyl. Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025 Hegseth has accused the military of lowering standards in the past and vowed to raise fighting standards. Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025 In October, things get a little better, with ESPN and Fox bundling their services for $40 combined, lowering the total for that month and November to $74. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025 Wayne had bagged a good ram about 3 o’clock that after noon, then had worked until dark lowering the ram down a series of cliffs and ledges on the north end of Bennett Mountain. Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025 The lock serves as an access point to Michigan's inland waterway in northern Michigan, raising and lowering the Cheboygan River for watercraft to pass through. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025 This is not about lowering expectations or coddling employees. Ruth Oh Reitmeier, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Democrat Alisa Simmons opposed lowering the tax rate, noting that this would be the third year of lowering taxes. Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025 The changes to the margin forecast resulted in Salesforce lowering its GAAP EPS outlook for the year, but increasing its non-GAAP outlook for the year. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lowering
Adjective
  • From stern to bow, the boat was a lesson in restrained elegance, with plenty of teak wood and muted, calming shades.
    Rachel Wallace, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But after nabbing the part of the stern hotel manager Valentina in the second season of The White Lotus (2022), Impacciatore was launched into Hollywood fame.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Prices across Louisville have generally followed the national trend, showing significant decreases from their peak in the first quarter of 2025.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
  • While pedestrian deaths in Mesa and Phoenix have increased since 2019, Tucson saw a slight decrease in fatalities.
    Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This character development does not really land, however, and Mersault becomes increasingly hazy, disappearing into a cloud of abstraction in the third act.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
  • People take pictures with the Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas sign under hazy orange skies as the sun sets in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 29, 2023.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While Ne Zha’s home of Chentang Pass is being obliterated, we’re shown a grim, apocalyptic tableau of mass death that features a family with a young child frozen in ash.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The grim irony of Sudan’s predicament is that Africa’s third-largest country boasts significant mineral reserves, including huge quantities of gold, as well as vast swathes of arable land.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • OpenAI also says there is a 45 percent to 65 percent reduction in factual errors over GPT-4, depending on the setting, as well as substantial gains in handling medical and coding tasks on industry-standard benchmarks.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The premium on French 30-year bonds breached a level last seen in 2008 as the government is on the brink of collapse, putting the country’s deficit reduction plans at risk .
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And whatever’s not white is clouded steel.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Graux’s 16mm photography is equal parts raw and opulent, and the sound design, by Trương and Ernst Karel, pays justice to every living creature (bees, monkeys, tigers, bats) under a perpetually clouded sun.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The decision is the latest development in a fierce legal battle over the fate of over 600,000 Venezuelans living in the United States under Temporary Protected Status, which shields them from deportation to their homeland in turmoil and grants them the ability to work.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Especially in areas like the fintech world, where competition is extra fierce.
    Eugenia Mykuliak, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Between the diminution of the room and the presence of the attendees, and the ability to interact with objects in a 3D space, the result is one of being there in the same moment, engaging with the same things.
    Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • There are many worthwhile ways to write about the arts, but her sniping at reviews suggests a faux expansion that would actually be a grave diminution.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 24 July 2025

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