planishing

present participle of planish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for planishing
Verb
  • Fewer than 10% of workers in this country are members of unions, and that number continues to drop as the current administration spends our tax dollars hammering federal workers.
    Jimmy Williams Jr, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The right-hander’s outing started ominously, with Jurickson Profar hammering the third pitch of the game 350 feet over the right-field wall for a 1-0 lead.
    Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Told in two timelines, Letters to Kafka explores her role as an active resistance fighter in Czechoslovakia after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, and her life in Vienna from 1918 to 1925, forging her own path separate from her husband, and Kafka.
    Christine Estima September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Her son Cedric Von Ferdinand, who was her caretaker, has since been slapped with dozens of fraud charges for allegedly assigning himself her power of attorney and forging signatures, among other offenses, according to a criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now the Razorbacks are chasing multiple scores for the first time.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Through it all, commitment — whether to a client, a property, or the process — proved more valuable than chasing short-term gains.
    Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As Pate was building his drama, The Runarounds were molding themselves into young adults — and a real band.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Behold the wholesome, impressionable child star from Pennsylvania who went from placing third in The Next Miley Cyrus Project in 2008 to molding art and body to meet an oversexed societal mandate.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One end of the spectrum are stress fracture, which are very small, often described as hairline fractures that result from repetitive force and pounding to the bone over time.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • It’s typed with such pounding despair and fury that certain letters of the alphabet actually tear through the paper (this was an old, manual typewriter).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Such action by Russia, either intentional or accidental, has raised the risk of widening the war by drawing other countries directly into the conflict.
    Matt Spetalnick, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Charlotte's Democratic Mayor Vi Lyles initially emphasized the suspect's mental health over the victim, drawing fierce criticism.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The cellulose helps the gel self-heal by forming reversible hydrogen bonds across the network.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up in the bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood-forming cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Planishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planishing. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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