questing

present participle of quest

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of questing Wishing you week of hardly working, mostly questing. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for questing
Verb
  • But the Democratic leadership is demanding an immediate extension to soon-to-expire Obamacare subsidies for their votes, saying Americans face a sharp rise in health care costs without them.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Uthe noted that demanding schedules with heavy travel schedules may have prevented the couple from nurturing their partnership.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When his estranged daughter Sam tracks him down, in a last-ditch effort to dig her way out of serious trouble, Mickey must choose between rekindling his relationship with his daughter in the face of a terrible tragedy or pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Chases are intended to be stopped based on what police policy describes as a continual evaluation of the risks by the pursuing officer.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Democrats countered that the GOP proposal actually is partisan, since Republicans are seeking to extend funding following the passage of a controversial spending bill that narrowly passed in July over the objections of all congressional Democrats.
    Kevin Breuninger,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Utah team is now seeking patent protection for its discovery, hoping to take fungal hydrogels from the lab to real-world biomedical applications.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Lapses in concentration and learning when to jump out of defence are areas Newcastle have been working on, while the recruitment team identified his one-versus-one defending and his off-the-ball decision-making around his own penalty box as requiring refinement.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • At its longest, the transformation process took over three hours, requiring Breckenridge to be outfitted with a prosthetic forehead piece, two cheek pieces, a nose piece, as well as fake eyebrows, a mustache, a beard, and a wig.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2022, Avery's trial lawyers, Dean Strang and Jerome Buting wrote a letter to Evers requesting clemency for Dassey.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Jesan escapes from defeat by kidnapping Ji-yeon and requesting Heon meet him alone.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Donovan isn’t asking Giddey or Kevin Huerter to transform into elite one-on-one defenders.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Advocates recommend reaching out and asking them to explain the denial.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Those wanting to stream the show live can do so with a Peacock premium subscription, or stream new episodes the next day with a basic Peacock subscription.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Given no choice, María Ángeles acquiesces to her daughter’s wishes and moves into the seniors’ home, where a hilarious exchange with a hairdresser wanting to chop off her long silver tresses typifies her iron-willed refusal to settle in.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Scammers will call or text consumers claiming to be a legitimate institution, such as a bank or a government institution.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Treat any message claiming your Meta account or other services will be disabled within days with caution.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Questing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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