POWERING Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

powering

verb

present participle of power

as in generating

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Recent Examples of powering The iGen 2200 has no problem powering many of the essential appliances in your RV simultaneously and has 2200 starting watts of power. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 June 2026 Take the examples of the second season of Amazon Prime’s Fallout and Netflix’s first season of Ransom Canyon, which made headlines last year by powering their base camps with solar power. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026 In terms of scale, this means that NFPA 855 covers systems as small as a those capable of powering an average American home for one day, all the way up to the largest systems that can provide backup power for entire towns. — Erin Smith, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025 Capable of powering 1 million homes for one hour all at once, the Waratah Super Battery is meant to stabilize Australia’s power grid. — Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025

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Even computers physically disconnected from networks could communicate by generating patterns of heat that act like Morse code, OpenAI’s Noam Brown recently suggested.

— Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
From beginning to end 143 films will screen many of them are generating some Oscar buzz.

— Libby Smith, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of generating

Verb

Because the switching happens thousands of times a second, the device can hold voltage steady, absorb a disturbance or operate in reverse, pushing power backward from batteries toward the grid.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Those cases were part of a broader movement pushing the limits of who is accountable for a mass shooting.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of pushing

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One way this splurge could pay for itself is by raising productivity, or output per worker, and energizing the entire economy.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
The Fox reboot celebrates the franchise’s enduring legacy, while re-energizing it for today’s global audience.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of energizing

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As of Thursday morning, the government had filed charging documents in 10 of the 28 cases, offering additional details about how authorities relied on voter registration data to pursue broader criminal charges around immigration status.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
The release did not specify the vessel’s operating range, charging time, service speed, or construction schedule.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of charging

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The first order of business for the energy transition is electrifying applications like vehicles and heating and making sure that the electricity that powers them is made using renewables.

— Scott K. Johnson, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
Hicks drove the next pitch to right-center for a 3-0 lead, electrifying the towel-waving, cowbell-ringing crowd of 32,125 fans at Tropicana Field.

— Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of electrifying

Verb

Several reports say the attackers arrived on a motorcycle and fled after firing.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026
Mississippi’s attorney general says a Senatobia police officer was justified in firing into a car during a shoplifting response, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

— Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of firing

Verb

The celebrities sucked up a lot of air, and so the show leaned in, switching to all-celebrity casts.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
Anthropic’s launch of Claude Duet may be partly defensive, giving Claude Pro and Max users a way to hand off more of their daily tasks without switching to a rival’s assistant.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

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