outcropping

present participle of outcrop

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcropping
Verb
  • Though Thornton suffered a season-ending leg injury days after the All-Star break, Golden State has remained competitive, with guard Veronica Burton emerging as a front-runner for the league’s Most Improved Player of the Year award, as well as a candidate for an All-WNBA team.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • County waste managers and leaders hope proposals from emerging companies will help residents better understand how to sort waste properly and reduce landfill use.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But economic uncertainty has brought challenges to the industry, as employers struggle to hire and retain workers and combat inflation and rising material costs.
    Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Her memoir, published by Simon & Schuster in August 2022, details her mother’s narcissism and abuse amid that rising child stardom.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This may be through automating data entry or surfacing insights from customer interactions.
    Toby Carrington, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no denying the truths surfacing either way, which may result in you feeling drained by the co-dependency of it all.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Kīlauea on Hawaii resumed erupting on Tuesday, shooting lava fountains up to 500 feet into the air for over 13 hours.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • While on the Croisette, the producers got an alert about volcanoes erupting in Iceland.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After blossoming into a superstar-level talent on the defensive side of the field in Dallas, Parsons will now play out his prime as a member of the Packers.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Big Block also showed his blossoming daughter some love on Instagram, posting a picture of Riley posing on a pool table.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The late-night format is confronting a variety of challenges, many of them arising from the internet.
    Chris Almeida, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
  • And, the lack of interruption equated to more in-depth agendas and a significant dip in late-arising health concerns.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Zurzuvae is a synthetic form of allopregnanolone, a naturally occurring neurosteroid that derives from the hormone progesterone.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The second is occurring between Ukraine's security partners.
    Daniel R. DePetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The new trailer offers glimpses of Candy’s upbringing in Toronto, as well as his earliest screen roles before breaking out in 1980s hits Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Spaceballs (1987) and more — including 1987's Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which inspired the documentary's title.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Without breaking out of the Vulcan mode, Oswalt nicely conveys the character’s unlikely charisma.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Outcropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcropping. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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