skirmishing

present participle of skirmish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirmishing
Verb
  • Sports could be dangerous even without brawling in UFC’s Octagon, an eight-sided cage.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Having a cyberarm might offset glitches in brawling attacks to encourage players to take more risk dice during a first fight.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Watch Thelma on Hulu Kinds of Kindness Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, this 2024 dark dramedy anthology is told across three loosely interwoven chapters, each exploring characters who take extraordinary measures to demonstrate their love to someone else.
    Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The 35-year-old Bohannon hopes to draw in audiences and artists who, like himself, may not come from a reggae background but are open to exploring new musical styles.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both offer distinctive depictions of minority experiences in America, and in the process, ask probing questions about how media affects our perceptions of each other.
    Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Geier, a close Kennedy ally and longtime critic of vaccines, has been on the CDC campus for weeks, probing the agency’s data for potential harms from immunizations, according to three people with knowledge of recent events at the CDC.
    Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mihály lives in the countryside, rides a motorbike, drinks heavily, and prefers boxing to football.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The two men traded barbs in the past, but that happens often in boxing with anyone of prominence.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In the film, Shy is played by Jay Lycurgo, an alternately sensitive and intimidating young actor in his breakout role, and the bag doesn’t appear until midway through, when the film crew go snooping without permission in the students’ room.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But Barclay said the intention here isn’t to go snooping.
    Adam Stone, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In 2027, the company plans a prospecting mission to one of their target spots to analyze dirt samples.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Those companies, in turn, are selling their AI products to all the non-tech companies that are prospecting for gold — that is, looking for ways that AI can make their operations cheaper or more efficient.
    Maria Aspan, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Her 8-year-old son Auron has been studying the diverse plants that grow there and learning to pull up invasive species.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • After teachers in his district suggested banning ChatGPT just a few years ago, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony Watlington told ABC News that instead of removing AI, Philadelphia is now learning from it together.
    Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Charlotte’s second consecutive 11-play drive halted in the red zone after Harrell led the 49ers down the field with repetitive strikes through the air, finding his favorite target, Javen Nicholas, to set Charlotte up in scoring position.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Assuring the continuation of this gem means finding spots on future schedules to place it.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Skirmishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirmishing. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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