showboating

present participle of showboat

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for showboating
Verb
  • Ford is planning on cutting up to 1,000 roles in electric-vehicle production in Germany.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Proposition 50 would turn back the clock of progress, cutting up our neighborhoods for political gain and silencing the very voices that fought hardest for fairness.
    Bernadette Suarez, Oc Register, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For the latter photo, her back was mostly to the camera, showing off a cheeky white one-piece swimsuit.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The bandeau was attached with a lace mesh fabric, and there was a second triangle cutout showing off her abs.
    Hedy Phillips, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gisin hopes that by fooling around with measurements of these more exotic states, physicists will come to better understand the role of measurement in general.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Johnson, who struggles with a neuroma, swears by her Oofos mules to keep it from acting up.
    Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Showboating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/showboating. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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