OBJECTING Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

objecting

verb

present participle of object

as in protesting

to present an opposing opinion or argument they objected to the conductor's insistence that their train tickets were not valid

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Recent Examples of objecting The opposition has been so strong that the FCC received over 1,800 public comments on the application, many of them objecting to Reflect Orbital’s plan for Earendil-1. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 10 July 2026 The bigger prize, Turkey's return to the F-35 program it was expelled from over its Russian S-400s, is stuck in a US review that Vice President JD Vance is running in Washington, with Israel objecting. — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 Soon after Kushner announced his project, environmental activists began objecting to its potential ecological implications. — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026 Landry and Murrill have pointed to the 2011 plea deal in objecting to Duncan calling himself exonerated. — Safiyah Riddle, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026 Riley wrote that his issue with Scorsese’s support of the technology wasn’t as much about objecting to the 83-year-old filmmaker using AI in his work, but rather about using his influence to push others into using it. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 4 June 2026 And in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, some patients, including parents of patients, are objecting to the idea of a donation from someone who has been vaccinated. — Torie Bosch, STAT, 1 June 2026 With both Democrats and even Republican allies objecting to the fund, the White House was planning to yank the controversial fund, Axios reported, quoting several aides. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026 The rules are so one-sided that a group of America’s largest pension funds, including CalPERS, and those headed by the Controllers of both New York State and City, filed a lengthy letter objecting to half-a-dozen of the provisions. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 May 2026

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The protesting staff shut the hospital and blocked the road leading to it, even burning a tire outside.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026
Much of the social scene centered around protesting, with friends gathering on weekends to march or blockade or occupy the upper branches of a tree in the name of whatever cause seemed most urgent.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of protesting

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Rodriguez said in a May phone interview with the Herald that detainees had been complaining when a guard approached him and told him to walk out of the cage where he and other men were housed.

— Churchill Ndonwie, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
These reviews are overall mixed with positive reviews praising USGB’s customer service and negative ones complaining about frequent marketing calls.

— Javier Simon, USA Today, 11 July 2026