transporting

present participle of transport
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Recent Examples of transporting Getting the magic to California required transporting it 2,801 miles from New York. Naomi Jeffries, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026 Overland Park and Lawrence both have statutes or ordinances restricting drivers from transporting animals in open truck beds. Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 21 July 2026 Firefighters then carried the injured woman down the trail before transporting her to a hospital. Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026 Even as my life and my recovery took many wild swerves, transporting me from the Rez to one of the fanciest restaurants in the country, all around the globe and back again, cooking was a constant. Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 The pipeline will run through 13 West African countries, transporting 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 20 July 2026 It was quickly picked up by the media, with articles and TV segments spotlighting the FBI’s suspicion that Salgado Araujo was transporting methamphetamine. Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 19 July 2026 During the demonstration, the robot autonomously handled repetitive pick-and-place operations, transporting items between workstations while adapting to changing object positions. Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026 This summer’s World Cup includes 65,000 volunteers who assist in everything from transporting players to greeting people at the airport. Eric Nager, Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transporting
Verb
  • That was part of his wider goal of sending endless waves of bomb-carrying drones and robots to hit Russian encampments in a bid to sharply reduce Ukraine’s casualties.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Durbin delivered the final blow to the Orioles in the eighth inning, hammering Tyler Wells’ 91-mph cutter 364 feet over the Green Monster, and sending the Fenway Faithful into a frenzy.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 July 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
  • Buzz Lightyear and Woody have been delighting families for three decades.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • The Dutch were the neutral’s favourites throughout World Cup 1974, their Total Football taking the game to a new level, and delighting supporters with their fluidity, high defensive line and commitment to keep on attacking.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 1 July 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
  • That was part of his wider goal of sending endless waves of bomb-carrying drones and robots to hit Russian encampments in a bid to sharply reduce Ukraine’s casualties.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Then in April, one of the company’s ships was passing Puerto Rico between two other jobs while carrying an advanced underwater drone with the right sensors to find the plane.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • This move, driven by concerns over youth access to intoxicating hemp, faces strong opposition from legitimate businesses who warn it will devastate the sector.
    Peter Su, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Staying home might not readily provide the intoxicating beauty Emerson describes.
    Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 4 July 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 23 Jul. 2026.

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