warming (up)

present participle of warm (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for warming (up)
Verb
  • There is also a kids club providing childcare and kid-friendly activities provided by a team with over eight years experience working with children.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • His new project, Flop, aims to create a spot market for computing power, where participants are rewarded with Flop tokens for providing GPUs and performing AI inference.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Each of the six main suspects get their chance to give their version of events on the day of Jodie’s death, effectively supplying their own alibis.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
  • That included voluntarily supplying law enforcement with lists of disgruntled current and former employees, and of the names of dissatisfied customers.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But beyond furnishing her home or launching future business plans, Anderson says taking on such a massive life project has held deeper meaning.
    — Jennifer Liu Valentina Duarte, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Another small desk option for furnishing even the tiniest of studio apartments, with cute vintage-looking rounded knobs.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Martinique has identified offshore wind and geothermal power as areas with significant potential, while a major program is equipping 67 schools with photovoltaic panels.
    — Panorama Media Ltd, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Capability is equipping employees with the skills, knowledge and tools to work differently.
    — Eva Majercsik, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Even more impressive is the company’s commitment to the local community and environment, and to educating guests about the area’s Indigenous culture and heritage.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The biggest challenge will likely be educating viewers that the Emmys are no longer on broadcast, and migrating an audience to Prime Video.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Rather than outfitting all of her staffers in Pleats Please as the internet had hoped, Woo returns from her trips to Taiwan with a haul of Yamasaki Takashi, a Harajuku brand founded on bringing origami principles to clothing.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Best Natural-Material Pillow The Six Bells Inn brings its cozy countryside aesthetic all the way to the bed, outfitting its guest rooms with Ostermoor mattresses, pillows, and duvets.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Without that rule, threatened species no longer get automatic protections and instead rely on agencies drawing up species-specific rules for each one, a process that can take years.
    — Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This impetus did not begin with the war on terror; generations of American leaders and scholars have sought to increase presidential power, drawing up mechanisms that could sideline civil liberties and intertwine military and police activities.
    — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
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“Warming (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warming%20%28up%29. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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