warming (up)

present participle of warm (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for warming (up)
Verb
  • As the image of a college education providing the future to financial security has already started to show cracks, here is another — the top and bottom poverty rates by major.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Mara Roszak developed the RŌZ Evergreen Style Cream to use in place of traditional gels, providing light-to-medium hold with shea butter, hydrolyzed pea protein, and carnauba wax.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Once seen as a cloud laggard, Oracle is now positioning itself as a central player in supplying infrastructure for the AI boom, aided by Larry Ellison’s close ties with tech leaders like Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Continue reading … SHEEN COMES CLEAN – Charlie Sheen reveals how his massive drug habit alarmed the drug cartel supplying him.
    , FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The furniture, objects, and art left me feeling culturally satisfied and inspired to finally finish furnishing my apartment.
    Libby Page, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Available for sale on the company’s website, Ten Runner offers a taste that is on the stronger side for bourbon, while furnishing notes of caramel, almond, and apple, without too sweet a finish.
    Andy Frye, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some school districts are even equipping buses with Wi-Fi hot spots or loaning devices to families, says Ellerson Ng.
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Educators can offer seminars on digital literacy for parents and children, equipping families with tools to navigate online spaces more safely.
    Alvin Thomas, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In other words, the leaders need to be the leaders while upholding the standards set forth by the coaching staff – a staff that had offseason turnover limited to one full-timer – while educating and guiding the younger players.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And while some may say academics exist in an ivory tower, the experience of welcoming generations of young people into our institutions each year provides a constant reminder of what is gained by educating young adults to ask why and why not rather than to rely on rote certainty.
    Brendan Harley, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Construction of the new space in OSB-1 is expected to be complete by October 1, at which point outfitting of the room will begin.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This simple platform bed frame is great for those looking for a more minimalist approach to outfitting a child’s bedroom.
    Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Deadline reported last month that Ashling O’Connor, a consultant at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, has circulated a brief for the CEO position and is drawing up a list of potential candidates.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • McCarthy was having some trouble doing so to start this game, as the Bears’ defense, led by new coordinator Dennis Allen, was drawing up the right pressures to fluster the young signal caller.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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