researching

present participle of research

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of researching 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 While LinkedIn matchmakers are strictly prohibited under the platform’s guidelines, professional matchmakers recommend researching potential partners online, including scanning their LinkedIn profiles. Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 The group began researching the former Pick ‘n Save property’s ownership and looking for a way to get in touch with the out-of-state landlord. April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Anne Dressen, a curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, has been researching these questions by surveying hundreds of museum labels and wall texts across Europe and the US. Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026 But if the end result is protection for your principal for the next nine months and a substantial return waiting for you when the account matures, the time spent researching your options now will have been well worth it. Matt Richardson, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026 Its tasks include researching dark energy, exoplanets, and the physics of distant stars in ways that even NASA’s groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope isn’t capable of. Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for researching
Verb
  • Researchers are also exploring combinations of cancer vaccines and other treatments, such as checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy, to strengthen the body's anti-cancer response.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Orwell was exploring the roles that euphemism, tangled syntax, and dying metaphors can play in obscuring the true intentions of a totalitarian state.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Hochul has made that argument in defending New York’s law, saying local officers should remain focused on investigating crimes rather than using state and local resources to perform ICE’s work.
    María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers spent months investigating whether the event could have been caused by a conventional background process.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • One probe is examining the software’s role in several Tesla crashes in fog, sun glare and other low-visibility conditions, including one in which a pedestrian was killed.
    Bernard Condon, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Prosecutors objected to removing anyone, arguing there was no way to determine who was right or wrong without improperly examining the jury’s private deliberations.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Researching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/researching. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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