staging

present participle of stage

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of staging On Thursday evening, Johnson made his comments at a Rogers Park church hours after a New York Times article reported the White House was planning major immigration raids in Chicago that would entail staging more than 200 federal agents at the naval base. Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 All three of them — Ahmed, Karia and Lesslie — came up with a variety of ways of staging that moment. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025 Many of the projects affected by the funding cancellation are staging areas that would be used to build offshore wind turbines. Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025 Active Clubs embed themselves in local communities by hosting events, promoting physical fitness, staging public actions and sharing propaganda. Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for staging
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staging
Verb
  • To entice buyers, Huawei is offering at least 50% off screen replacements, as well as two free appointments to service the phone at home or at a preferred location.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • FanDuel, a popular online gambling company, threw them a Hail Mary by offering to restore express train service for the Philadelphia Eagles’ season opener against National Football League (NFL) division rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, on Thursday.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To qualify for a portion of the county arts funding, organizations must be active 501(c)3 entities, located and operating in Milwaukee County, organized for the primary purpose of producing or presenting the arts, and open to the general public, according to the county's application terms.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Before presenting Video of the Year at the 2018 awards, Madonna paid tribute to Aretha Franklin, in a moment critics called totally tone deaf.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The European Commission said Google favored its own online display services, giving its ad exchange, AdX, a central role in the adtech supply chain.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The YouTube cameras caught Kelce giving some tough love to Taylor, which involved a small head-butt and loud words.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • SpaceX lands Falcon 9 boosters on offshore drone ships after most of its launches and only brings the rocket back to an onshore landing on missions carrying lighter payloads to orbit.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The deal with YouTube caps off a tumultuous year for Sesame Workshop, which lost its output deal with HBO last December, though the streaming platform inked a deal to continue carrying some library programming.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During the annual Rhythm & Roots Reunion festival, Shanghai is the first to set up a stage for performing bands.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Yungblud is performing at the 2025 MTV VMAs as part of a special tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne, who died at age 76 on July 22.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Staging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staging. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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