quenching

present participle of quench

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of quenching Activating your ninth house of expansion and third house of immediate surroundings, this tricky opposition is quenching your desire for adventure while pulling you back into shady debates and undercurrents with people that surround you. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025 While there are plenty of quenching hair oils and split-end-smoothing leave-ins out there, nothing has made more of a difference to my puffy lengths than Color Wow’s Dreaming Advanced Repair and Resurfacing Treatment, $45. Jacqueline Kilikita, Refinery29, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quenching
Verb
  • Rescuers are extinguishing the fire.
    Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Robust and verifiable world models could uncover, if not the El Dorado of AGI, then at least a scientifically plausible tool for extinguishing AI hallucinations, enabling reliable reasoning, and increasing the interpretability of AI systems.
    John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The brawling is weighty and the combos are satisfying to pull off, plus the rich artwork pops wonderfully across the screen.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When life events call for satisfying comfort food, try our Eggplant Parmesan to evoke warmth and tenderness.
    Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Quenching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quenching. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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