Thesaurus results for RELAYING

relaying

verb

present participle of relay

as in giving

to give something (such as information or an object) to someone else They relayed the good news to their children just before leaving for work.

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Recent Examples of relaying Over the years more than 150 Nobel Prize winners have written for Scientific American, relaying their breakthroughs and ideas to our readers. — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026 Their managers still spend half their weeks gathering information from one team and relaying it to another. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026 Runners have been relaying signs to the hitter from second base for a century now. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026 That's the beauty of this president in his transparency and -- and relaying, uh, this administration's policies to all of you and to the rest of the world. — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 Mithril has promised that its tech could help local law enforcement who respond to a shooting by locating the shooter and relaying critical information, but that would require a high degree of coordination in a hectic and dangerous environment. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 July 2026 In relaying the unimaginable destruction of the event, Lee eschews sensationalism for sobriety. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026 Only Giving Feedback When Something Goes Wrong Giving feedback usually implies the idea of relaying something negative that needs to be fixed. — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Without Shanahan involved in practice, offensive line coach Chris Foerster has assumed a supervisory role while offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak is relaying play calls. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 27 July 2026

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For shopper Kori Farmer, The Grocery Spot helps stretch her budget while giving her access to fresh food close to home.

— Jamal Goss, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
The crisis is giving new urgency to an energy problem that Bangladesh’s garment manufacturers were already confronting.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of giving

Verb

But what ultimately saves the film is Hathaway's remarkable restraint in conveying Kym's deep pain and remorse over an unimaginable family tragedy.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026
Schmidt alludes to the impossibility and unreliability of language, preferring color and soundtrack to dialogue as a means of conveying various moods.

— Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of conveying

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The study is ongoing, but interim results found the treatment, Intismeran, met both its primary target of reducing cancer recurrence and its secondary ⁠goal of keeping cancers from spreading to other parts of the body.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Getty Images As wildfires sweep Europe and North America, falsehoods about their causes and the nature of climate change are spreading like, well, wildfire.

— David Vetter, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of spreading

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In on most aircraft and require most pilots to fly while transmitting ADS-B signals.

— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Companies are developing robust, modular, and radiation-resilient solutions to filter and process information in space, transmitting only valuable insights.

— Ben Topor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of transmitting

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Ukrainian prosecutors have said both Zhykovych and Reut were communicating with Berezovska in the months leading up to the attack and made several cryptocurrency payments and bank transfers to her.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
The role includes conducting press briefings, communicating administration policies, responding to media inquiries and helping shape public messaging on major issues facing the White House.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

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