transporting

present participle of transport
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Recent Examples of transporting According to the country's Home Affairs department, which briefed lawmakers on Tuesday, the country has spent nearly $18 million accommodating and transporting immigrants who demanded to return to their home countries. ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 City Hall was open Wednesday and the city sent fire rescue trucks to assist in Portage as well as extra V-Line buses to help Porter County EMS in transporting patients who need oxygen to a hospital in another city. Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 The ferry was also transporting 44 vehicles and 53 motorcycles. CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 Elsewhere in Europe, rivers crucial to transporting key commodities are drying up. Bloomberg, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 The effort is focused on transporting lab samples, blood and donor matching materials between smaller communities and larger hospital hubs, where timing can impact diagnoses and treatment. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 One theory, proposed in seminal papers by the Italian hydrologist Andrea Rinaldo and colleagues in the early 1990s, says that river networks are elongated at large scales because this is the most energy-efficient way of transporting water downhill. Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026 Comparing a complex, multi-town regional transit network to a traditional district transporting children strictly within municipal borders is not a realistic comparison. Leonard Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026 However, transporting ballots from the JCEB headquarters in Independence to the affected polling places in Lee’s Summit during evening traffic was a slow process, Zorich said. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transporting
Verb
  • The Federal Trade Commission recommends donating to organizations people already know and trust and researching unfamiliar charities before sending money.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall said Deniro Laster had broken the conditions of his bond by trying to intimidate witnesses and obstruct justice, including by sending a rat emoji on Instagram to a potential witness.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Major Wilson, 17, has been around horses most of his life and now spends much of his time helping younger riders get ready, showing them how to saddle their horses without exciting them.
    Jhair Romero, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For Harrington and her husband Dante, the thought of triplets was shocking but exciting all the same.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The xx was particularly phenomenal, delighting a huge turnout of fans with selections from all three of the full-lengths that constitute this dreamy English indie-pop band’s excellent catalog.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The match showcased all competitors, with Solo even mocking Jey Uso, delighting the crowd.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The anti-Zionist project of ending Israel’s existence as a Jewish state implies killing, subjugating, or re-exiling more than half of the world’s Jewish population.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Ruthlessly exiling those players sent a clear message about the importance of squad harmony, but arguably handed the leverage in negotiations to buying clubs, driving down their prices and delaying their departures.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ultimately, though, the highlight is grabbing a glass of local wine at the lobby bar, carrying it to any one of the viewpoints on the massive lawn, and watching sunset over the silent sound, feeling like everything the light touches is yours.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The Houthis claimed responsibility for the strike via the group’s news agency Saba on Tuesday, saying the ship was carrying military equipment.
    Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Add in a sport element, and the feeling of sharing the joy of winning with fellow fans of the same team or athlete is intoxicating.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time, star jasmine adds undertones of intoxicating honey.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Her compositions are often marked by her love of long, slow glissandi, string instruments sliding, sometimes languorously, sometimes dramatically, up and down in ways that can be haunting and disorienting, but always captivating and entrancing.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 July 2026
  • While some hotels offer a rich backstory and entrancing interiors, others are brand new to the hospitality scene.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • But being intellectually skeptical of something is not the same as banishing it from one’s existence.
    Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • Between the trauma his father inflicted on him, banishing him, calling him weak, giving him a scar and pitting him against his sister — along with his mother being taken — Zuko gives into his darker impulses.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

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“Transporting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transporting. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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