Thesaurus results for MILLING

milling

verb

Definition of milling next

present participle of mill

as in grinding

to reduce to fine particles a demonstration of how dried kernels of corn were milled in colonial times

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Recent Examples of milling Otherwise, reporters are milling around chairs, going live on their television channels and reloading the voting results online. —

ABC News, 26 May 2026 For those who has spent years milling through up fronts, the scene hit hard. —

Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026 In the early 1900s, the Colombo family took over and more than a century later, Molino Colombo is still milling here, still family-run, and still making history. —

Jenn Rice, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026 We’re supposed to be wowed by an Escher-like sequence featuring crowds of people milling about in a landscape of mirrors—heavy, man! —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 May 2026 Yet the very-not-everyman golfers are always within an arm’s length, milling about the grounds like weekend duffers. —

Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 May 2026 Intermittent daytime lane closures will be required for the project, which consists of replacing the concrete median, installing of curb and gutters as well as milling and resurfacing from the intersection to about 800 feet west, according to an Illinois Department of Transportation news release. —

Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 Even with all these characters milling about, the revival makes sure to honor the original series’ balanced perspectives. —

Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026 Video submitted to the Citizen app shows a group milling about near Wabash Avenue and Randolph Street near the Loop 'L' tracks. —

Lauren Victory, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026

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Nine crucial years of expansion and solidification of the pernicious institution went by, speeding the nation’s road toward a grinding war.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
After more than four years, Russia’s full-scale invasion has morphed into a grinding war of attrition where soldiers are being killed en masse, financial losses are piling up and Kyiv has started to liberate more land than Moscow has seized.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 June 2026