whipping (up)

present participle of whip (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whipping (up)
Verb
  • Benefits Premium access to exclusive events, thought-provoking conversations with global leaders and more, all available on-demand.
    Forbes Membership, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • McCarthy and his cronies engineered a hysteria over left-wing ideologies and their sympathizers, encouraging tactics like loyalty oaths and provoking paranoia over a suggestion that communist spies were omnipresent in America.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fighting on the island had stopped, so the soldiers in the picture were not under fire, and the action of raising the flag (there is a movie of it) took all of a few seconds.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Finally, a potential government shutdown is looming, and talks have remained stalled as the deadline approaches, raising concerns about federal worker furloughs and service disruptions.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Its intended purpose is to help develop the nation's communications infrastructure and protect consumers’ equal access by promoting competition among communication companies.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Sep. 2025
  • What happens if social media’s data-gathering and profiling engine is turned not to selling merch or promoting political rhetoric, but to profiling enemies?
    David Karpf, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Whipping (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whipping%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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