peaking

present participle of peak

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Verb
  • The echoes of this feeling resounded clearly three centuries later in the increasing disconnect between suburban mobility and localism.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Districts saw little improvement overall, with the average score increasing by half a percentage point in both subjects.
    Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Last year, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Ghana’s sprawling capital Accra to demand the government take action, with hashtags #stopgalamseynow and #freethecitizens proliferating on social media.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The slaying of the serpent was a mythological superspreader, mutating and proliferating across the Indo-European world and beyond.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Peaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peaking. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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