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as in racing
to proceed or move quickly
effortlessly motored past the other runners for a first-place finish
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Recent Examples of motoring
The two men high-fived and then put the fish in the livewell before motoring back to the dock to call the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s ShareLunker program.
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Kubie Brown, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2026
Still Talking, her final book, will star the same wonderful characters motoring through their days on tides of chat.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
In the red zone with the Broncos motoring on a two-minute drill to end the first half Sunday, Nix stepped up in a collapsing pocket and got dragged down by the Commanders’ Preston Smith.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Jill Roberts has spent a lot of time motoring around the Georgia countryside holding a weighted stein.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
The hope is that the talks could clear rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies and allow the global economy to keep motoring.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
The de facto captain oriented himself by motoring northwest along the coast towards Havana.
—Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
The suspect fled the scene, motoring his boat toward the Intracoastal Waterway.
—Chris Arnold, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
There’s one that does so particularly well, though trades some spaciousness for motoring fun.
—Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Kubie Brown, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2026
Still Talking, her final book, will star the same wonderful characters motoring through their days on tides of chat.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
In the red zone with the Broncos motoring on a two-minute drill to end the first half Sunday, Nix stepped up in a collapsing pocket and got dragged down by the Commanders’ Preston Smith.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Jill Roberts has spent a lot of time motoring around the Georgia countryside holding a weighted stein.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
The hope is that the talks could clear rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies and allow the global economy to keep motoring.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
The de facto captain oriented himself by motoring northwest along the coast towards Havana.
—Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
The suspect fled the scene, motoring his boat toward the Intracoastal Waterway.
—Chris Arnold, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
There’s one that does so particularly well, though trades some spaciousness for motoring fun.
—Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for motoring
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Bob Hall, a childhood polio survivor who became known as the father of wheelchair racing after twice winning the Boston Marathon and then going on to build racing chairs for the generations of competitors that followed, has died.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are racing to have their company’s lander ready first.—
Marcia Dunn,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, government data shows that car insurance prices have soared 55% compared with six years ago, or just before the pandemic, driving up the number of Americans going without.—
Alexa St. John,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Smith went 2 for 2 with a walk and double at the plate, driving in 2 runs and scoring a run, all out of the 9 hole in the lineup for Southwest Christian (24-4 overall, 6-1 district).—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Apr. 2026
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The rider hung onto his upside-down watercraft for an hour, as speeding boats raced by.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
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Video uploaded to social media shows Peralta speeding through the neighborhood with an NYPD squad car in pursuit.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Hungarians living near the southern frontier, where Orbán made a show of building a border fence during the refugee crisis, are travelling to Croatia to buy cheap groceries.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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Thursday’s game is the second of the 76ers’ three-game trip and the first game of a back-to-back, with Philadelphia traveling to play the Indiana Pacers on Friday.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Explosions rang out in Tehran and low-flying jets could be heard for hours as the capital was pounded.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Come springtime in the Hamptons, the sight of large flocks of Canada geese, flying in V’s overhead or foraging in fields, brings mixed feelings.—
Emma Allen,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Zookeepers are not rushing to put them together.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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The group then sprang into action, rushing to pull them from the burning vehicle and extinguish the flames.—
Michele Gile,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Three wolves, trotting single-file with heads and tails down, started to cross the flat half a mile downwind of the caribou.—
Frank Glaser,
Outdoor Life,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Seattle indie rock band, led by Ben Bridwell, will now embark on a spring tour to celebrate that milestone, trotting across the United States later this month.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
24 Mar. 2026
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No point hurrying toward a resolution that was always receding.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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Instead of hurrying to break up tents and scatter RVs, Lee and Oakland’s interim homelessness chief Sasha Hauswald want city workers to focus on minimizing trash and human waste around encampments.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Motoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motoring. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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