SIDING (WITH) Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

siding (with)

verb

Definition of siding (with)

present participle of side (with)

as in propping (up)

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Laboratory officials declined to provide details, citing privacy concerns, but said experts from India, China, the United States, Singapore and South Korea were assisting with the work.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Hawaiian Electric, the state's primary utility, said crews that had been assisting Kauai restore power after this month's Hurricane Lowell would return to Oahu, Maui and the Big Island in preparation for the coming storm.

— MEGAN JANETSKY, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of assisting

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The facility — slated to be 110,000,000 square feet — will be where Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, which SpaceX acquired ahead of the IPO, manufacture chips for computing, aiding both SpaceX and Tesla.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
For the latter, this is vital to enable the safe passage of ships through shipping lanes, into and out of ports, all the while preventing collisions and aiding activities like search and rescue.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of aiding

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The companies that are adopting AI faster are also hiring faster than peers, according to Evan Sohn, founder and CEO of labor market research firm Revelio Labs.

— Corynn Winston, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
Meta had called on TikTok and its other chief competitor, YouTube, to join it in adopting similar standards, but TikTok had not publicly responded.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of adopting

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With the goal of smuggling themselves to Turkey, the women are eventually found out for keeping a secret or two from the conspirators abetting their plan.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
Prosecutors won a 77-year sentence on Wednesday for 27-year-old Kyle Spitze on charges of producing child pornography, possessing and accessing the material, and abetting the distribution of animal crush videos.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of abetting

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