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 An accident disrupts the ritual, and Keigetsu, thrown off balance, sees her spell spiral out of her control, sending the two women back into each other’s bodies. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson avoided a vote on that by sending the House home early, adjourning Congress until after the midterm elections. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 Now, we’re mired in a war in Iran without apparent end, the gulf is blocked and the Red Sea potentially blocked — sending oil prices soaring. — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026 The key themes now are romance, dating, children or fertility, expression or hobbies—so one of these could be taking steps forward, but also sending you mixed messages about where. — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026 Ole Miss built a 24-7 lead at halftime, sending the crowd into near fits of euphoria. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026 Other than staying 100 yards away from the whale at all times, not crowding or pursuing it, and staying alert out on the water, the Center also noted that locals can help by sending any sightings of it to their website or the WhaleAlert app. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026 New Jersey was among the first states to challenge Kalshi over its sports contracts, sending the company a cease-and-desist letter in 2025. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026 Marie has been reduced to a low-pressure system that is still spinning offshore and sending a deep tropical air mass to the Southern California region, said climate scientist Daniel Swain. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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Legion can keep collecting information without transmitting the way a conventional radar does.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
The network connected computers on Hawaiian islands using ultrahigh-frequency radio, transmitting information over radio waves instead of cables.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of transmitting

Verb

Majidreza Hariri, the head of the Iran-China Joint Chamber of Commerce, said last month that transporting a single container between Iran and China via ships costs about $3,000, according to Hariri.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
In March, Saudi Arabia, because of the shipping restrictions in the Persian Gulf, began transporting its crude oil through a pipeline that stretches from the kingdom’s Eastern Province to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, on its western coast.

— Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of transporting

Verb

The war has also disrupted energy markets, with Iran obstructing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and its Houthi allies tightening their grip on a critical Red Sea shipping corridor.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Those attacks have disrupted shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic waterway connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of shipping

Verb

Finance leaders should periodically compare the cost of transferring risk with the company’s ability to retain and finance portions of it.

— Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Among these moves were Nico Paz joining Como, striker Gonzalo Garcia transferring to Fulham and Victor Munoz’s move to Liverpool from Osasuna, when Madrid owned 50 per cent of his rights.

— Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of transferring

Verb

Those efforts have included dispatching a senior envoy to discuss ending Iranian airline Mahan Air’s flights to Oman, according to a Treasury Department spokesperson.

— Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
His plan for dispatching this Dirty Baker’s Dozen is to draw as many of them to him as possible, leaving Green and Jacob to shoot the rest.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026