Thesaurus results for REPORTING

reporting

verb

present participle of report

as in describing

to give an oral or written account of in some detail will report the progress of the war effort before a congressional committee on Monday

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as in recording

to make a written note of reported the lawyer's closing statement

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Recent Examples of reporting Over time, reporting unwanted email helps Gmail identify similar messages more effectively. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026 Flight tracking sites were reporting widespread delays at the airport. — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Miami Herald staff writer Vinod Sreeharsha contributed reporting. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2026 To date, Nepal has reported over 1,300 dead and nearly 5,000 missing, while China is reporting over 40 dead and more than 500 missing. — Jennifer Pak, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026 Trump signed the order alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and ranchers during an Oval Office ceremony, according to reporting from The Hill. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026 That’s despite just over 40% of this group reporting feeling some degree of financial instability. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026 Ternus, who was anointed Apple’s next CEO in April, had just finished a long day of reporting the company’s quarterly earnings. — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 Theaters are reporting sell-outs in Chicago, Houston and San Francisco, and the distributor said its Sunday numbers for the doc are tracking higher than Saturday. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2026

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Patrick Clancy, the prosecution’s first witness, spent two days on the stand describing her downward spiral despite her efforts to seek psychiatric treatment.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Maresca has also probably muddied the waters by refusing to identify a preferred holding midfielder and describing both new players in similar terms.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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Northern Illinois drops after not recording a first down at Iowa until late in the third quarter against the Hawkeyes' third-string defense.

— Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Reliever Seth Halvorsen gave up three hits without recording an out in the ninth, but the Dodgers had built up enough of a lead to weather a Washington (67-76) comeback attempt.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of recording

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The first online evacuation order came on August 5 for residents of Mansouri, near Tyre, though Israel had already dropped leaflets on the village just a week into the ceasefire, telling ‌residents to leave ahead of strikes.

— Reuters, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
Antonelli had doubted his chances of such a fightback on Thursday, telling reporters that getting back into the top five was a realistic target.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of telling

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This is why a practice can roll out AI across every function and end the year with the same number of billers logging in to the same portals.

— Oleg Nesterov, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Marshal Moreno kept detailed records, logging which ship each deceased person had arrived on.

— Victoria Davies, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026

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Still, a couple of other moments from that January night are worth recounting one last time before the Bears charge into this season.

— Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Some of the former models, like Holly Hallstrom and Kathleen Bradley, participated in the documentary, recounting some of their negative experiences being sexualized on the show.

— Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of recounting

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Platforms including Cluely, Interview Coder, and Final Round AI render answers on the candidate’s own display, outside the layer a screen share captures, while transcribing the interviewer’s audio as the conversation happens.

— Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
And the days are coming when AI is meaningfully involved in clinical care, beyond just transcribing our own words, and the follow-up recommendation deviates from the standard of care.

— Frances Mei Hardin, STAT, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of transcribing

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Chris Douglas, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan-Flint, called it unlikely that stick prices will go up 50% across the board, noting Canada's modest market share, but wonders what will happen if demand increases.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
The power of representation Castillo Flores is eager to see wider representation, noting that Hollywood, in general, hasn’t had the best track record.

— Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

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