Thesaurus results for WHISHING

whishing

verb

present participle of whish

as in humming

to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound seemingly out of nowhere, a baseball whished past my head

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as in hissing

to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\ the match whished as it burst into flame

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By contrast, the three data centers coming to Miami-Dade are much smaller, requiring less energy to keep the computers humming all day and less water to circulate and keep the computers cool.

— Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
The show has turned into a case-of-the-season procedural with the alien stuff humming in the background as the overarching mythology.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 July 2026

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Jason was hissing fiercely; Gordon, who projects a monastic calm, was trying to reason with the mother while batting her back each time the flap swung open.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
This is just what Harley had built – an out-of-the-box pro-drag bike complete with slicks, wheelie bars, a hissing air-shifter and a proper multi-stage clutch set-up specifically for the drag strip.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 July 2026

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Because of this tremendous heat, hydrogen atoms in the inner core of stars are zipping along at incredible speeds and slamming into each other with astonishing violence.

— Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 July 2026
That could potentially be dangerous, especially in urban environments with vehicles zipping around.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026

Definition of zipping

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Silent neutron stars at the center of supernova blast sites may actually be whispering softly, following the detection of faint radio emissions coming from one such object for the first time.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 July 2026
Hears the doctors whispering in the corner of the room about his decline.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026

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