stating

present participle of state
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stating The video shows Dowdell, in a Georgia shirt, relearning how to walk while stating that his story is not over. Connor Riley, AJC.com, 7 Sep. 2026 For decades selectors presented Hall candidates to the rest of the selectors by stating a case for that person using statistics, testimony and endorsements from various respected football sources. Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The project includes housing, retail, restaurants and more, with the club stating last year its investment in the district could exceed $1 billion over the next decade. Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Following reports about liver problems, the company reformulated Midnight Drops and added a warning label stating the product should be taken in consultation with a physician. Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2026 Sankey provided an affidavit stating that SEC university presidents voted 15-0 in favor of the new rules, with LSU's Wade Rousse abstaining. ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026 Allegations of another fight DuBose painted a different picture of what occurred in the locker room, stating that Fields was also involved in an altercation with another player. Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2026 There was a case being made here, without stating it quite so bluntly, that the two greatest decades for women in pop music were the ’90s and the 2020s. Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026 The California Highway Patrol posted on social media stating that the crash involved a single big rig near Floriston, east of Truckee. Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stating
Verb
  • Amodei once made waves by saying AI could replace 50% of white collar jobs, but more recently has called AI a multiplier of jobs.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The stock is down almost 7% this year, with Goldman saying it's been unfairly punished.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The first online evacuation order came on August 5 for residents of Mansouri, near Tyre, though Israel had already dropped leaflets on the village just a week into the ceasefire, telling ‌residents to leave ahead of strikes.
    Reuters, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Antonelli had doubted his chances of such a fightback on Thursday, telling reporters that getting back into the top five was a realistic target.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In the complaint, Boltinhouse acknowledged that years-old social media posts resurfaced after her June victory, including posts containing a racial slur and others expressing conservative political views.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The visual style references a late 1980s Donna Karan campaign and video, photographed by Dennis Piel, that featured Rosemary McGrotha expressing her inner thoughts inside a limousine coming into New York.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The other was a tearing beauty, a creature so lovely that one look at her sent young men’s blood pressure skyward and set them to uttering wild, hoarse cries and tearing telephone directories apart with the bare hands.
    John Madson, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
  • All season, Shamea and Porsha have circled each other, barely uttering a direct word, but the tensions seep to the rest of the group, trickling into every interaction.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Local love for Panzú Brewery Mint Hill residents wasted no time voicing their sadness and disappointment over the brewery’s upcoming closure.
    Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Key and Peele — who rose to fame together through their sketch comedy show, which ran from 2012 to 2015 — last worked together on the 2022 Wendell & Wild; the stars costarred in the stop-motion animation movie, voicing a pair of demon brothers.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This is Edward, the aging King of England, talking to the ambitious noble Harold Godwinson.
    John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • While talking with reporters Wednesday, Payton was asked how Denver was preparing for Mahomes, who is coming off major knee surgery in December.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • After wrapping up its longest monthly losing streak on Wall Street in more than a decade, Google has started September by giving investors several reasons for optimism.
    MacKenzie Sigalos,Drew Troast, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The voyage involved a 57,038-DWT bulk carrier, giving the system a test under real commercial operating conditions.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Nowhere in the world do nonprofessionals (strictly speaking) merit the attention that the college football player here does.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Broadly speaking, many prominent Silicon Valley companies started in a place of technological service and innovation only to have more recently shifted into the dystopia business, and public sentiment has shifted in kind.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Stating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stating. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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