REMINISCING Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

reminiscing

verb

present participle of reminisce

as in remembering

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as in ruminating

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Verb

For Cohen and other businesses around downtown San Francisco, the hope is that visitors coming to the city for Dreamforce leave remembering more than just the conference and find a reason to come back.

— CBS News, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
And this responsibility is worth remembering as the nation and Connecticut observes Gold Star Mothers and Family Day.

— Cristina Johnson, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of remembering

Verb

So, Otto sits at the end of the counter, ruminating on the past weeks, then downs his glass of Gordon’s.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Yet there was Devers, ruminating as if the fate of the Giants’ (57-82) season rested on this Tuesday night in Pittsburgh.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of ruminating

Verb

Ke Huy Quan is recalling his reaction to learning as a child that his first residual check for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was $100,000.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2026
Located on Regent Street, the store reflects the brand’s design through sleek nude colors and smooth interior design, and integrates a polished silhouette sculpture, recalling Skims’s branding.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of recalling

Verb

In the stands, fans murmured beneath their breath, wondering what new math the Kiffin’s successor could be pondering.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
For those pondering upgrades, Apple has laid a strong foundation with its hardware for some ambitious features down the road.

— Victoria Song, The Verge, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of pondering

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Continually surrounded by well-wishers during an hour of socializing before a formal program of speakers and videos recollecting his career, Lubelfeld listened to what others had to say before speaking himself.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
That suits the artless, unfiltered way Yo describes her life, spending a fair amount of time recollecting her own childhood.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of recollecting

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After studying the scouting report on the reliever during a pitching change, Jones got a hold of one and crushed a 423-foot, three-run blast in Tuesday’s win.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
Graphs of Different Flavors In the late 1950s, the American mathematician Edgar Gilbert was studying telephone networks at Bell Labs.

— Paulina Rowińska, Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of studying

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Kirk, 31, had been debating students in an outdoor courtyard surrounded by tall buildings and with several thousand people in attendance.

— CBS News, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Consider ongoing litigation between state governments and prediction-market companies, where the two sides are debating whether states are preempted from enforcing their gambling laws by a federal law on prediction markets.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of debating

Verb

Hunschofsky, the new leader of House Democrats, emphasized how Republican leaders spent virtually no time analyzing the implications of Amendment 3.

— Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, the new instructional technology task force met for the first time at the start of the month to begin analyzing current practices, along with gathering research and feedback.

— Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026

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