Thesaurus results for STEPPING IN

stepping in

verb

present participle of step in

as in visiting

to make a brief visit I just stepped in to say hi on my way to class

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as in standing in

to serve as a replacement usually for a time only couldn't find anyone to step in for me so that I could take a break from my caregiving duties

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Recent Examples of stepping in As Bay Area art schools flounder under financial strain, Silicon Valley is increasingly stepping in as an influential force in the region’s cultural landscape. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026 Jobs are shifting from operating software to managing a hybrid workforce of humans and agents—setting goals, validating outputs, and stepping in when judgment is required. — Girija Krishnamurthy, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 South Korea, too, is stepping in to fill the gap in Western inventories. — Chris Oberoi, Fortune, 24 June 2026 With David ultimately stepping in as director, his family saw it through. — ABC News, 20 May 2026 As travelers across the country look for low-cost flights following the shuttering of Spirit Airlines, one airline is stepping in to fill the void in the Pittsburgh area. — Patrick Damp, CBS News, 20 May 2026 Tell me about Cineverse stepping in to re-release Pan’s Labyrinth. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 May 2026 The sector boomed in the years after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, with private credit funds and other alternative investment vehicles stepping in to fill the lending gap created by the withdrawal of investment banks from riskier parts of the debt market. — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 6 May 2026 Jonathan Groff was the original star of a production that had many top-tier talents stepping in at different phases of the production’s elaborate run. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepping in

Verb

Yordan Alvarez socked his 34th home run in the eighth inning, a tiebreaking two-run shot that lifted the Houston Astros to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Miami Marlins and a sweep of the three-game interleague series.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
The scene in question came after host Robert Irwin and visiting pro Brandon Armstrong, who served as Monday’s coach of the week, split the 10 remaining contestants into couples for a storytelling challenge.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026

Definition of visiting

Verb

The Boys had the Vought corporation standing in for the show’s own platform, Amazon, and Superman has an Elon Musk figure in Lex Luthor.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 July 2026
Moments later the Tesla Model 3 raced down a residential street in Katy, Texas, at highway speeds, slammed into a brick home and killed a 76-year-old woman standing in the front room.

— Bernard Condon, Fortune, 16 July 2026

Definition of standing in

Verb

That pitch has already landed early customers like workspace platform Notion and AI customer‑service startup Decagon, where Aiden is running in production.

— Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Vantrack plans to reveal the production Lightcamp van in September and will show it at the Netherlands' big Camper Trade Fair in Utrecht, running in late September/early October.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 July 2026

Definition of running in

Verb

For centuries, technology has lowered costs by substituting mechanical power for human labor.

— Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
In the early days of the republic, there were many radicals and reformers who shared my suspicion that patriotism was an evasion, substituting songs and speeches about liberty for the reality.

— Dominic Erdozain, Time, 3 July 2026

Definition of substituting

Verb

Coleman said the company is in development on a handful of projects with announcements coming over the next couple of months.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 July 2026
Paredes was seen coming over to a post-match fracas between players from the two nations and putting his hand on the throat of García.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of coming over

Verb

While the world’s oceans have generally been heating up, one patch of the Atlantic located south of Greenland has been dropping in temperature.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 22 June 2026
And then, her par putt on 18 – measured at 2 feet, 10 inches – spun tantalizingly around the rim of the cup before dropping in and ending the suspense.

— Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 8 June 2026

Definition of dropping in

Verb

The retailer has expanded the space by 140 percent, taking over an area formerly dedicated to tableware, crockery and small home furnishings.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 23 July 2026
The San Francisco campus is taking over the site of the California College of the Arts, the 119-year-old institution that will graduate its final class in 2027 after struggling with falling enrollment and a roughly $20 million deficit.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 July 2026