Thesaurus results for ORBITING

orbiting

verb

present participle of orbit

as in circling

to travel completely around the moon orbits the Earth

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Recent Examples of orbiting When the team compared their data to observations from NASA’s massive, orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, the results were nearly identical. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026 Currently, the jewel in SpaceX’s revenue crown is Starlink, Musk’s network of orbiting internet-providing satellites. —

Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 The basic outline is similar in sequence and scope to Apollo 9, a 1969 mission that was a critical precursor to Apollo 11, the first-ever human moon landing, later that year and that was itself preceded by 1968’s moon-orbiting Apollo 8. —

Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 9 June 2026 Hence, the orbiting data centers could create significant space junk since each satellite is designed to operate for only five years, according to an FCC filing. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026 Still, even these black holes have gravitational influences that can impact more than the swirling platters of gas and dust — that influence can also affect the motion of stars orbiting the black holes. —

Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 June 2026 This is the first spaceflight for Cardman and Platonov, the fourth trip for Fincke, and the second for Yui, to the orbiting laboratory. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026 These allies aim to launch twin prototype satellites early next year to test their models and the deployment of super-speed inter-satellite links for an orbiting machine learning lab. —

Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 One of the three astronauts on the Shenzhou 23 mission is scheduled to stay at the orbiting space station for a year in what would be among the world’s longest single stays in space. —

Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026

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Verb

That churning mix of confidence and doubt gives Sir Render a full-bodied dynamism that Navy Blue albums can sometimes lack, moving between moods instead of circling around a single frame of mind.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026
Symptoms of prolonged deficiency include ventroflexion of the neck (bending the head toward the floor); mental dullness (confusion, lethargy, non-responsiveness, failing to interact, low energy); vision changes; wobbly walking, circling, or falling; seizures; and weakness and lethargy.

— Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 10 June 2026