sweating

present participle of sweat
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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 Verity came in sweating profusely. Lauren Rothery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 The Yankees should not be in this position, sweating the unpredictability of a three-game wild-card series, but their misfortune during the summer brought them here. Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025 Instead of sweating through intense cardio, Zone Zero is about moving just enough to keep your body active without strain. Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025 My face, arms, and upper body are sticky from sweating in my sleep. Ivy Scott, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025 Cece performs elegance, beauty, and perfection while sweating through excruciating pain, enduring enormous levels of judgement. Lauren Morrow september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025 Anthony is immediately sweating. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025 Worries over aging, about people sweating you for your creative choices, or hoping for words of wisdom to decode the world’s madness, seem like triggers Byrne might well have. Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025 Why’s Keanu even sweating this guy’s potential exit? Nick Caruso, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweating
Verb
  • With The Fulfillment, the sub-context is how clout culture is a currency, how attention itself has become a currency, just like our laboring bodies are.
    Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
  • While such a scenario sounds potentially maudlin and manipulative, Lucero — who wrote the film from a personal place — never allows that to happen by making the characters complex and flawed, and laboring under real-life issues.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Interest wanes during the summer, except for mowing, watering and worrying about this or that patch of dead grass.
    Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, IndyStar, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Typically this can include cognitive symptoms, like worrying about everything all the time, and a host of physical symptoms.
    Ashleigh N. DeLuca, Parents, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gucci is clearly embracing jewelry as the characters were dripping with huge pieces, including big ’80s-style earrings.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Something sticky was dripping out of the cabinet.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of letting our legs carry us aimlessly down the road with our minds interrogating every step, our thumbs pose too simple a question to which our smartphones are pleased to give us too simple an answer.
    Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Both sides have also carried out arbitrary detentions, with SAF interrogating and beating dozens of Christians in 2024 and 2025.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Maybe new additions will boost a struggling position group.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The ever-paranoid Ally believes all of these headscratchers are part of a Trumpian conspiracy that's out to get her, but audiences were left struggling to connect the dots.
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For anyone who has yet to join the Vulture Movies Fantasy League — or who is still fretting over which films to choose — this preview also offers some data points to help guide your selections.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Safdie embraced Johnson and his co-star Emily Blunt during the ovation, weeping alongside him.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This musical blends gospel and Motown with operatic stylings to illuminate the changing times of the Civil Rights era while examining social and familial issues still prevalent today.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The exhibition is devoted to examining modes of representation in different mediums where artists have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of black grief.
    Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025

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