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noun

as in breeding

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verb

present participle of sire
as in producing
to become the father of the champion racehorse went on to sire a long line of winners

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for siring
  1. breeding
  2. producing
  3. spawning
  4. fathering
  5. procreation
  6. begetting
  7. reproducing
Noun
  • Mosquitoes need only one tablespoon of water to breed, so areas like rain gutters, birdbaths or buckets with stagnant water are all possible breeding sites.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Crate-trained, traveling only with bamboo, water, treats Ping Ping and Fu Shuang began their 8,000-mile journey in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, the largest panda breeding facility in China.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of breeding
Verb
  • Jeff stars in it while also co-producing and providing the music.
    — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Polo was producing maximum sustained winds of 155 mph Saturday but is expected to gradually weaken before making landfall Monday.
    — Eugene Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of producing
Noun
  • This internal pressure eventually forces the microstructure to recrystallize on its own, spawning fresh, dramatically finer grains from within.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Goliath grouper spawning season runs from late July through October, while Blue Heron Bridge offers year-round diving and snorkeling.
    — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of spawning
Verb
  • There is a quiet revolution going on in America, and definitely in Atlanta, in how contemporary men are fathering.
    — Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 18 June 2026
  • Shi was also alleged to have committed criminal offenses and violated Buddhist precepts by maintaining relationships with multiple women over a long period and fathering at least one child, according to a notice from the temple’s authority on its WeChat account at that time.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Definition of fathering
Noun
  • The reasons for this planet-wide drop in procreation, however, are hard to pin down and hotly debated, and, like most other big questions in the United States, they have been absorbed into larger culture-war arguments.
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
  • For those not familiar with the term, anti-natalism is a philosophical stance that views life as unacceptably full of suffering and procreation as a morally indefensible thing.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 July 2026
Definition of procreation
Verb
  • Nelson took 12 years to get the project made, and that labor-of-love aspect shows in the soulfulness and meticulous care the writer-director brings to this unsettling story of violence begetting violence, based on actual events.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • To remain an entertainment capital demands consistent reinvention, the showroom’s neon glow begetting the nightclub’s flashing LEDs and so on and so forth.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
Definition of begetting
Verb
  • Meanwhile several experts, independent of Schrottenloher, had launched an initiative aimed at reproducing Google’s result.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Its job is to go beyond producing a serviceable picture by interpreting and reproducing content.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of reproducing
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“Siring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siring. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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