swelling (up)

present participle of swell (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swelling (up)
Verb
  • Many are pulling six-day work weeks with mandatory overtime, and increasing numbers have begun calling out as the financial strain and exhaustion mount.
    JOSH FUNK, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The military is striking the boats at the same time the administration is applying increasing pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
    NPR, NPR, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • These confrontations highlight the dangers our agents face daily and the escalating aggression toward law enforcement.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • London — Two top leaders at the BBC resigned on Sunday amid an escalating scandal over impartiality and bias that plunged Britain’s public broadcaster into one of its biggest crises in recent years.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Courtesy Deirdre Hall When reading women’s routine mammograms, radiologists are increasingly augmenting their eyes with artificial intelligence.
    Elizabeth Cohen, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The British royal family member accessorized her look with gold earrings by English designer Daniella Draper — donning a pair of mini hoops with shamrock charms in gold, further augmenting the fall shades of her ensemble.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The concept is expanding into practice in the state as a solution to regional food distribution challenges.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Future work will focus on integrating snow-deposition modeling with PV yield simulations to more accurately predict energy losses and on expanding analyses to more complex, uneven alpine terrain.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Pasadena Humane staff emphasized the urgency of the rescue, noting that unseparated mice and hamsters can reproduce rapidly, quickly multiplying into dozens of animals in a short time.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Bellettini was previously Kering’s deputy CEO in charge of brand development and is best known for her long tenure leading Saint Laurent, multiplying the size of that business nearly sixfold.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The discovery helped open the door to more recent developments such as tinkering with the genetic makeup of living things, treating disease by inserting genes into patients, identifying human remains and criminal suspects from DNA samples, and tracing family trees and ancient human ancestors.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • To prevent the card from becoming soggy, fold a piece of clear tape across the bottom of the card before inserting into the fruit.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the consequences of the shutdown have been compounding.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Systems that could reliably use a laptop with human-level proficiency and without compounding hallucinations could perform many jobs currently done by remote workers.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Adoption accelerates naturally when professionals understand that AI is amplifying their capabilities, rather than replacing them.
    Feon Ang, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In embracing food as a tool to fight injustice, activists would be amplifying a tradition that was at the heart of Gilmore’s kitchen.
    Time, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Swelling (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swelling%20%28up%29. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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