perching

present participle of perch

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of perching There have been many previous perching drone designs, but these typically have hooks or grasping claws to hold on to branches or powerlines, or use magnets or gecko-like feet to attach to vertical surfaces. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perching
Verb
  • Their client’s search stayed pretty close to home, with the bank looking at another Broadway property before landing on the 341-351 site, Tyler said.
    Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • As part of the airport’s nearly $4 billion Terminal 1 renovation project, local restaurants, cafes, fast food chains and specialty stores are landing inside.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Airline fares increased almost 6% from July to August (up from 4% the prior month), while lodging like hotels and motels rose almost 3%, according to the CPI data.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The 90-day window for lodging a challenge is tight, but veto referendums have been successful in Missouri as recently as 2017, when labor unions successfully organized to defeat a right-to-work law that would have banned compulsory union fees.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Say each word was a bird—alighting briefly, out of reach and then gone again.
    Leila Chatti September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The second was to build what amounts to a nonflammable moat around a home to prevent embers from alighting on anything next to a house that could burn and ignite the structure.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Once seen as a cloud laggard, Oracle is now positioning itself as a central player in supplying infrastructure for the AI boom, aided by Larry Ellison’s close ties with tech leaders like Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • More than a third reported not positioning for tail risk compared with 14% and 12% of firms in EMEA and APAC.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • So much for the dawn of a new New England era, with no-nonsense Mike Vrabel as head coach and Josh McDaniels settling in as the new/old offensive coordinator.
    Steve Buckley, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Solomon had retired from a career in law enforcement, and was settling into a new routine, making time for exercise and hobbies, such as splitting wood on his farm.
    Allison Aubrey, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Perching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perching. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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