TOGGLING Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

toggling

verb

present participle of toggle

as in tying

to fasten with a device in which a small piece of wood, plastic, metal, etc. is pushed through a loop or hole toggled his duffel coat closed

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Recent Examples of toggling Neil LaBute has spent three decades toggling between critical acclaim and heated controversy. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026 Viewers can get broadcast optimization by toggling on the AI Sports Mode. — New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2026 Screen sharing can be turned on or off by accessing System Settings > General > Sharing and toggling the switch for Screen Sharing. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 My preferred routine is neither so adventurous nor so educational, toggling mostly between lazy days on the beach and long meals at tavernas. — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 27 July 2026 Her words prove true throughout his interview, during which Glover opens up for the first time about his life with Alzheimer's disease, often toggling between unfinished thoughts and poetic personal tangents. — Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026 On the Claw, the default settings in Expedition 33 kept a frame rate of around 30–40fps in the game’s opening area, but toggling on Intel’s XeSS upscaler and frame generation toggles gave me more like 70–90fps worth of smoothness. — Jay Peters, The Verge, 23 June 2026 In this series, Wembanyama is toggling between being extraterrestrial and getting buried by physicality. — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 29 May 2026 Seydoux, toggling between dreamlike drama and intimate character study, is doing the same. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 18 May 2026

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Bo Davidson hit a tying sacrifice fly off Evan Phillips (3-2) with two outs in the eighth for San Francisco before Hernandez answered against Trent Harris (0-1) for his fourth home run.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
Madonna leads this year’s nominations with 13 categories, tying Lady Gaga’s 2010 record for most nominations in a year.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of tying

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Years ago, after Jake died, my instinct as a medical student was anger — clenching my teeth and jabbing a pen into my notepad, making a line of inky holes along the margin.

— Caroline Cherston, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026
Janet held the phone away from her ear, clenching her teeth against Maggie’s booming voice.

— Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

Definition of clenching

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The sequence stylistically excises itself from the episode as though clipping it, anticipating its excision from the show when uploaded to a video-sharing platform.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Decades later, a relative sent Dottie a newspaper clipping about the Foster study, which included an archival photo of her grandmother.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of clipping

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Walls, backsplash areas and the space beneath upper cabinets rarely get treated as storage, even though rails, pegboards, magnetic strips, floating shelves and hanging baskets can absorb a meaningful share of what currently sits on the counter.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Floating shelves and hanging baskets add another layer without eating into your footprint.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026

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Nothing stops someone in a hurry from pasting a payroll appendix into a public chatbot for a summary.

— Ethan Pham, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
But installing a new system isn’t just copying and pasting a playbook; constant tweaks and adjustments are needed, especially when defenses start throwing curveballs.

— Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of pasting

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The collection includes the clubhouse shirt players wore after clinching the NL East, on-field hats featuring the postseason patch and items such as pennants, pins, magnets, keychains and baseballs.

— Christopher Harris, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
One day after clinching the AL Central title, the Guardians fielded a makeshift lineup missing several regulars.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of clinching

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But if the awards season goes as the streamer plans, a journey that began in Cannes with a rapturous standing ovation, could end with Los Javis clasping some golden statues.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026
One juror was rubbing his eyes as Sullivan talked, and another was clasping and unclasping his hands in his lap.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of clasping

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