Thesaurus results for WISHING

wishing

verb

Definition of wishing

present participle of wish

as in inflicting

to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable despite my protestations, the dreaded position of club secretary was wished on me

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as in wanting

to see fit you're free to sit wherever you wish

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Recent Examples of wishing But the pitching staff needs more than a tweak — more than hoping and wishing some internal candidates take the opportunity and run with it. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026 Probably recordings of them complimenting one another and wishing each other a happy birthday and offering brotherly advice. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 If you have ever been stuck in traffic wishing your car could sprout wings, Samson Sky has been working on something pretty close. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026 In between posts promoting her events, Campbell Ortiz frequently posted about her children, congratulating one daughter for graduating high school and wishing one son happy birthday and cheering on his basketball team. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026 Somehow, after just two games, the Chargers’ offense under McDaniel has Bolts fans wishing anyone else was running the show. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Cure should not mean handing a young adult a treatment summary and wishing them well. — Vidya Puthenpura, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026 Those who remain and continue to support the most corrupt administration in our nation's history are here, wishing for our bakery to burn to the ground. — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 In 2025, Schiffer shared a throwback photo of Cosima to her Instagram, wishing her a happy 15th birthday. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 7 Sep. 2026

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Verb

Although inflicting pain globally, the energy crisis is biting particularly hard in the rural expanses and communities of the European Union’s largest country by area.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Alexander Kuzmenko, 62, was fishing with a group of people along the Bolshoy Yenisey River in Russia's Republic of Tuva when the bear attacked him, inflicting severe injuries to his head and face.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of inflicting

Verb

Beyond wanting reform of existing religious options, these various sects differed greatly from each other.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Romantic and financial motive Prosecutors have focused on Flynn’s romantic and financial motive for wanting to kill his wife and get away with it.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of wanting

Verb

With its affinities for isolation and, at times, imposing scale, Land art conjures archaeology and the geological sublime—vast expanses of space and time.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The measure works largely by imposing deadlines on state agencies and courts to issue decisions on those projects, proponents say.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of imposing

Verb

For his fourth feature, Post Tenebras Lux, Reygadas took a major detour toward the avant-garde and the personal, in a move that garnered him some detractors while pleasing his more hardcore fans.

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026
But a taste for a cheap, crowd-pleasing meal may be something the two leaders share.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of pleasing

Verb

Of the billionaires who line up on the Messeplatz for the First Choice VIP opening at Art Basel, few would be out of place palming handshakes and quaffing Champagne at the Steigenberger Icon Grandhotel Belvédère.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 20 Mar. 2026
The school also posted a picture of the center, who reportedly has a 7-4 wingspan, palming two basketballs on the program’s website.

— Alex Valdes, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026

Definition of palming

Verb

Rather than forcing you to adapt to a permanently stitched grid of elastic loops, the M3 utilizes heavy-duty, modular pages.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026
The wars caused massive destruction of religious and civic buildings, mills and mines, housing, crops, herds and transport infrastructure, damaging prosperity and forcing some people to move or starve.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of forcing

Verb

No foisting me on another mother too overwhelmed to notice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
In the vein of each family dwelling, the village courtroom becomes an amphitheater of sorts, foisting upon its participants a sense of outward performance, while simultaneously exposing them to the elements.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026

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