planishing

verb

present participle of planish
as in hammering

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for planishing
  1. hammering
  2. forging
  3. chasing
  4. molding
  5. pounding
  6. drawing
  7. forming
Verb
  • Trump has spent weeks hammering senators to pass the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo ID when casting a ballot.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But by leaving out Clark, people start hammering their socials, thereby injecting Ion and the WNBA into people's feeds.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of hammering
Verb
  • Bosa seems committed to forging ahead in another ACL comeback, having rebounded well in 2021 with a reconstructed left knee and captured NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2022.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • With debts racking up, Ina loses the family’s bus company, forcing her to shift between jobs, from construction to becoming a bar entertainer, therefore forging an identity through toil.
    — Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of forging
Verb
  • According to Linnane, dressing like an Italian isn’t about chasing whatever fashion trend is dominating social media.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Final Thoughts The Qidi Max 4 feels like a machine designed for people who care more about capability, material flexibility, and printing large, functional parts than chasing a perfectly polished consumer-appliance experience.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of chasing
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  • Whereas the Scranton method mainly involves molding ultrahot steel in giant forging presses, Repkon added a step in which a fast-spinning machine squeezes and rolls out the metal like clay on a potter’s wheel.
    — Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • At the company’s Woburn research facility, lab technicians recently poured pellets into a molding machine to make forks.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of molding
Verb
  • Keeber’s eldest son is still pounding the pavement looking for work as employers pull back entry-level hiring.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Video captured by a tourist on board a boat in northern Botswana showed the heart-pounding moment the vessel had to outrun a charging hippo.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of pounding
Verb
  • That said, there’s an undeniable old-world charisma to the place that hits you like a rogue horse drawing a carriage barreling down the Rue du Rivoli.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The two-way star is inevitably drawing comparisons to the former Heisman winner.
    — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of drawing
Verb
  • Interestingly, though, pentagonal arrangements of atoms can fill space in almost-but-never-quite-repeating patterns with fivefold symmetry, forming materials called quasicrystals.
    — Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The tricky case occurs when the band touches only three points, forming a triangle with two interior points.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of forming
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