SENDING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

sending

verb

present participle of send

as in transmitting

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another they promised to send the package in the morning

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Recent Examples of sending The president’s immigration crackdown has been a prominent feature of his second term with major operations in Los Angeles and other cities sending arrests soaring. — Mike Catalini, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2026 Rather than try to impeach him for a third time, given the evidence of last Tuesday, Democrats should be sending him bouquets of flowers with thank you cards. — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026 By 2016, states were sending cease-and-desist letters to FanDuel and DraftKings, and both were facing bankruptcy. — New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026 Originally designed around large, centralized power plants, many of today's power grids were built like one-way roads, with producers sending electricity to consumers. — ABC News, 8 Nov. 2026 To allow a politician to lead the school would be as foolish as, well, sending presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner to end the war with Iran. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026 This included sending Taylor to the same schools as the children of movie studio executives. — Estrella Albendea Ruiz, Vanity Fair, 7 Nov. 2026 Regulators had seized Ueno Bank just three days earlier, sending shock waves through the financial system and setting off the country's worst political crisis in more than a decade. — CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026 Eyes are on Montana, another reliably Republican state, that could surprise the country by sending a Democrat to Congress. — Maham Javaid, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026

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Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 continue transmitting data past the heliosphere billions of kilometers away, while New Horizons successfully powered its 2015 flyby of Pluto using nuclear heat.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Certain mosquito species have gotten a bad reputation for transmitting diseases, including malaria, but other insects help control their populations.

— Chris Elphick, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of transmitting

Verb

Some experts have questioned whether Russia can meet the schedule for diesel deliveries, in part because of the complexities of transporting the oil within Russia to its ports and thence to its destination.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Then the Iran war sent the prices of diesel and fertilizer soaring, which increased the costs of transporting beef and growing feed.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of transporting

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The tanker has entered service, and the results suggest the technology could help shipping operators lower fuel consumption without changing their vessels’ primary propulsion systems.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2026
The insurance costs of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have gone up substantially, even though there’s more oil going through the strait today than there was pre-war.

— NBC news, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of shipping

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That original Berkeley cast, including Eisa Davis, Daniel Breaker, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Coleman Domingo, won the 2008 Obie Award for ensemble at New York’s Public Theater before transferring to Broadway.

— James C. Taylor, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Christa Pike, the death row inmate who survived a botched lethal injection attempt, has filed an emergency federal court motion to stop prison officials from transferring her back to her former housing block, claiming her life is in danger.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of transferring

Verb

That nonprofit group has been building resilience in lower-resource countries for over a decade, dispatching coaches and mentors to educate and train local healthcare students and practitioners as well as building financial and material resources.

— Diane Cole, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026
More important than the figures themselves is the engine’s broad, effortless power delivery, which makes the Carrera T feel eager whether carving through a mountain road or dispatching a stretch of freeway.

— Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026