multiplying

present participle of multiply
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Recent Examples of multiplying The system, unable to recognize obvious errors or apply common-sense limits, kept multiplying orders exponentially. Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Emails multiplying like rabbits. Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025 The Fourier transform does this for all possible frequencies, multiplying the original function by both sine and cosine waves. Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025 The Iranian contribution was leveraging the R&D from elsewhere in Iran’s area of operations—chiefly Lebanon—and multiplying the Iraqis’ lethality. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 But unlike other new technologies, AI models are also trained by users who evaluate and rate the model’s responses to prompts, multiplying the first-mover advantage effect. Dave Smith, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025 By mid-August, when the Israeli army resumed its incursions in into residential areas, Hamas’s offensive operations were multiplying in eastern Gaza City, especially in the neighborhoods of Tuffah, Zaytoun, and Shujaiyya. Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025 In each song, there’s a gesture of generosity, of giving voice to other perspectives, of multiplying in more tones. Martín Toro, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025 Just the beginning Along county roads, bright red yard signs are multiplying. Sarah Henry, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for multiplying
Verb
  • By reproducing the tachocline, scientists now have a foundation for more reliable forecasts of solar activity.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Preliminary data seemed to show that the Iberian harvester ants, or Messor ibericus, were creating hybrid worker ants by reproducing with another species of harvester ant called Messor structor in the Mediterranean region.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By inserting an extra biochemical cycle into a model plant, the researchers boosted growth, seed yield, and fat production without increasing water demand.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • An increasing number of boys are lonely, isolated and confused, wrestling with the aftermath of the #MeToo movement and the expectations of rigid masculinity, which has been widely characterized as toxic.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both the governor and the secretary listed a combination of lower market prices for farm products plus rising fertilizer, machinery and labor costs as a severe squeeze on the farm economy.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • China’s economy showed further signs of weakness last month, with key data Monday revealing factory output and consumption rising at their weakest pace for around a year.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Continue propagating mature clumps by division in spring.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Ask how your system updates its models, handles evolving processes and prevents mistakes from propagating.
    Karpagam Narayanan, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now the Icon Class family is expanding, with three equally hefty sister ships.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • An artisan pizzeria with South Beach roots is expanding across the state.
    Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Global interest in the technology is accelerating as Italy has approved a demo line between Venice and Padua.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Access to these solutions will enable Komatsu to optimize safety and energy efficiency, while increasing overall productivity, accelerating product development, and enabling large-scale decarbonization.
    Richard Bishop, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And the American redstart — a jetblack little fellow with orange splashes — pretty much stopped breeding here in the early 2000s.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • They’re spotted foraging on golf courses and even breeding in suburban wetlands near Chicago.
    Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What makes OutRival unique is its commitment to augmenting human capacity rather than cutting corners.
    AJ Thomas, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • That product was built from the ground up around AI and was possible only because of AI, as opposed to augmenting an existing product with AI.
    Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Multiplying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multiplying. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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