MAKING WAY Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

making way

verb

present participle of make way

as in opening

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Velly Pizza is also opening a second location in the Natomas area.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Among the recommendations is a change that would change the village’s single-family residential districts to neighborhood residential districts, potentially opening them up to multi-unit housing.

— Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

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Ocean iron fertilization grew from the idea that iron-rich dust blown across the oceans during past ice ages fed blooms of phytoplankton, helping to lower atmospheric CO₂.

— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Ohio isn’t just helping children leave struggling public schools.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of helping

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Along with Williams, at least 14 other people, many of them friends and family of the escapees, were arrested and accused of aiding in the escape, including by providing food, cash, transport and shelter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
The historical research aiding the film is conducted in collaboration with Caróu Oliveira, a Black historian dedicated to the study of slavery and the daily lives of Black women in the 19th century.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of aiding

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Artem Zub made his season debut Thursday, assisting on Greig's goal.

— CBS News, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
This configuration allows the bristles to make contact with the scalp, assisting in thorough detangling and ensuring no section is missed, even with voluminous locks.

— Laura Sandroni, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of assisting

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American strategy toward Europe and East Asia has been a steady and cost-effective success, facilitating great-power peace since 1945.

— Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
And good for Stuart and Eidra for confirming her new perception of the situation and facilitating a new plan to circumvent Todd’s participation in her conversation with Vaughn.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of facilitating

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And still, that is just unplugging as tourism, not unlike visiting a spa with a raw-vegan menu and daily yoga classes or attending a writers retreat that brings you breakfast in a basket every morning and someone who cleans your room.

— Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Oct. 2026
After Rice tried to stop the surveillance, turning the cameras around or unplugging the internet, Perera, Rice said, began calling the police in Ohio from 2,300 miles away in California, to request welfare checks.

— Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026

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