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as in laboring
to devote serious and sustained effort
spent the afternoon sweating over her tax returns
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as in worrying
to experience concern or anxiety
don't sweat over getting the application in a day late, as it probably doesn't matter
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as in dripping
to flow forth slowly through small openings
the oil coat may sweat through this varnish
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as in interrogating
slang
to put a series of questions to
the narcotics squad tried sweating the mule, but he was genuinely clueless about the inner workings of the drug operation
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Recent Examples of sweating
They’re composed of a quick-dry fabric, so don’t worry about sweating through them.
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Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
Last weekend, many of us in the Central Valley were sweating with widespread temps above 100 degrees and several extreme heat warnings.
—Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Players can cool off and replenish lost water and salt from sweating.
—Dorany Pineda, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
Leaving Out Smelly Shoes Just like your clothes, shoes have an extremely bad smell, especially if your feet are prone to badly sweating.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
How heat can impact the body Typically, during extreme heat -- meaning temperatures are hotter or more humid than average -- the body tries to cool itself by sweating.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 June 2026
Think middle-class families gathered around picnic tables, pitchers of lemonade sweating in the heat, baskets brimming with soft buns, and squeeze bottles of ketchup and mustard.
—Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026
Your body cools down by sweating, so replacing that moisture is crucial.
—Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 17 June 2026
Widow’s Bay concerns a fictional island town in New England whose mayor, Tom (Matthew Rhys), is sweating to get the same tourism dollars those fancier, think-they’re-so-great places like Martha’s Vineyard get.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 June 2026
Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
Last weekend, many of us in the Central Valley were sweating with widespread temps above 100 degrees and several extreme heat warnings.
—Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Players can cool off and replenish lost water and salt from sweating.
—Dorany Pineda, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
Leaving Out Smelly Shoes Just like your clothes, shoes have an extremely bad smell, especially if your feet are prone to badly sweating.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
How heat can impact the body Typically, during extreme heat -- meaning temperatures are hotter or more humid than average -- the body tries to cool itself by sweating.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 June 2026
Think middle-class families gathered around picnic tables, pitchers of lemonade sweating in the heat, baskets brimming with soft buns, and squeeze bottles of ketchup and mustard.
—Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026
Your body cools down by sweating, so replacing that moisture is crucial.
—Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 17 June 2026
Widow’s Bay concerns a fictional island town in New England whose mayor, Tom (Matthew Rhys), is sweating to get the same tourism dollars those fancier, think-they’re-so-great places like Martha’s Vineyard get.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweating
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The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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Another laboring woman with the same image on her phone.—
Karli Swenson,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
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In Disclosure Day, Jane’s worrying is curious, coming from someone who meant to become a nun.—
Luis Parrales,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
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Looking to be quite aggressive in a football sense and always looking for the solution and what can happen instead of worrying about what the problem is.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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That was the background; in the foreground were about a dozen ancient live-oak trees dripping with Spanish moss.—
Fred A. Bernstein,
Architectural Digest,
16 June 2026
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Zendaya stunned in an LBD dripping with fringe during her first red carpet with Tom Holland since 2021.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
15 June 2026
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Investigators sat across from nearly every young child at Skyline – many of whose nascent, swinging legs could not yet reach the ground from their chairs – interrogating them over their missing classmate.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
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New York police executing a search warrant raided an LGBTQ+ bar called the Stonewall Inn, and some of the patrons resisted as officers continued interrogating them and bar employees.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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The two candidates also are offering differing solutions for the country’s struggling health system, ballooning public debt and entrenched corruption.—
Regina Garcia Cano,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
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The two candidates also are offering differing solutions for the country's struggling health system, ballooning public debt and entrenched corruption.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
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On the other side of the office, Islas, Alejo’s boss, is fretting about how to keep Alejo’s team employed.—
Megan Greenwell,
Bloomberg,
9 June 2026
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Scenes of furious sketching, intricate designs of delicate cutouts and swirling shapes and fabrics, pinning, sewing and the bustle of runway shows alternate with fretting about how to pay the rent.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 June 2026
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Petrescu looked over at Vidineac, who was weeping as the casket was lowered into the ground.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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Rice was surrounded by her legal team and her family at the time of the reading and immediately started weeping with her face in her hands.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
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During the quantum program, Dash worked with Flores and another member of the cohort to develop a project examining how quantum computing could be used to detect the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.—
P.R. Lockhart,
Hartford Courant,
22 June 2026
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Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Start by examining the leaves.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
21 June 2026
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“Sweating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweating. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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