researching

present participle of research

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of researching What led up to the lawsuit As the lawsuit explains, some former teammates talked among themselves in 2024 with memories of the hazing, and one of them started researching the history of the initiation practices. Paula Wethington, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 Someone researching the best anti-aging cream for their needs can identify the active associated with firmness, look at the available evidence, and see how Okoaskin describes the finished formula. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 Heder would work for two years on researching and developing the project with Heumann, interviewing dozens of people involved in the actual Carter-era protest. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Because the site itself was previously used as a laboratory for a company researching seeds for agriculture, chemicals were used that could leach into the ground and damage nearby creeks and streams, the county said in court documents. Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Sign up for the newsletter Scientists have been researching solar geoengineering for decades, but private companies are starting to pop up. Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026 Now she’s fully thrown herself into researching her American crime story, even tagging along with the crash reconstruction unit of a highway patrol in North Dakota. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026 When his distant goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) shows up with a dubious interest in researching the Dial, Indy is begrudgingly wrangled into One Last Ride. Frank Deruggiero, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026 Salazar-Caro, an artist and the Creative Director of DiMoDA (The Digital Museum of Digital Art), will be spending his fellowship researching how emerging technologies and ancestral knowledge systems might potentially converge. News Desk, Artforum, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for researching
Verb
  • Somewhere along the way, she’s found joy in exploring complicated, messy characters.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The two companies will first focus on the joint feasibility study before exploring potential large-scale commercial opportunities.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of simply reducing the amount of water used in a process, researchers are investigating whether the same water can be cleaned and cycled back into production.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • After investigating 600 items of evidence related to the substation, the National Energy System Operator ruled out suspicious activity in a report saying a preventable moisture fault caused the fire, leaving almost 70,000 homes without power.
    Henry Austin, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • McEvoy, who leads Insulet, the maker of the wearable, tubeless Omnipod insulin pump, said designing better technology requires understanding the details of patients’ days—not simply examining their clinical data.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Lamming’s review looked at more than 350 studies in total, most of which were conducted in mice and other lab models, examining things like lifespan, metabolic health, and cellular aging.
    Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Researching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/researching. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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