warming (up)

present participle of warm (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warming (up)
Verb
  • Foraging for black walnuts is a long-standing tradition in the Ozarks, providing extra cash for harvesters and connecting people with the outdoors.
    Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The United States supported the anti-communist massacres, providing lists of senior communist party officials, equipment and money to the Indonesian army, according to official documents that were declassified in 2017.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Companies used the standpipe to bring water to the Rio Verde Foothills housing development after Scottsdale stopped supplying that community with water for several months in 2023.
    Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Reservoirs supplying Tehran and other urban centers have dropped to critically low levels, while agricultural production in the nation’s most fertile regions is collapsing, threatening food security and rural livelihoods.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The online home furnishing company is firing on all cylinders, the firm wrote after the company’s quarterly report.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The collections, which encompass furnishing fabrics, wall coverings and trimmings, mark his second collaboration with the global lifestyle brand headquartered in Thailand.
    Bambina Wise, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The patriots’ dreams of liberty ricocheted around much of the rest of the planet, too, pushing questions about human dignity, popular sovereignty, and citizenship toward the top of the global agenda and equipping rights seekers everywhere with a potent new vocabulary.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The Act established land-grant colleges across the country, democratizing higher education and equipping generations of Americans with the skills to meet the challenges of industrialization.
    Mark Hagerott, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Longoria was honored with the Maestro Cares Community Hero Award for educating and empowering Latin women through Eva Longoria Foundation (ELF), and Balvin received the Trailblazer of Cultural Empowerment Award for his commitment to raising awareness about mental health.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Sheffieldhas said that focusing on educating Detroit’s children, and continuing to improve public safety and life in the neighborhoods will be among her priorities if elected mayor.
    Corey Williams, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The trio has a surprisingly good theory about the implosion of the makeshift Astral Pulse; seems like Shroud never found the original, and someone has been outfitting low-level criminals with bootlegs that are going awry like Robert’s.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Even Kananaskis Village—the region’s hub with a hotel, restaurants, a spa, a general store, and an outfitting company—is in a serene valley surrounded by trails.
    Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Red Sox understandably are drawing up contingency plans to replace the three-time All-Star who will turn 32 at the start of next season.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And even beyond the storms themselves, meteorologists face additional uncertainty in drawing up a forecast.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Warming (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warming%20%28up%29. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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