wising (up)

present participle of wise (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wising (up)
Verb
  • Advertisement PurpleAir doesn’t forecast pollution, while AccuWeather tries to predict AQI hourly throughout the day for towns or cities based on available data informing their models.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What is informing your take on the present-day mob families in New York?
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As geologists were realizing that earthly timescales were vast, astronomers began to discover that the same applied to the distances of the cosmos.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • One of the most common frustrations with meetings is walking out and realizing no one clearly captured the important points.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • White House chief of staff Susie Wiles held an emotional meeting with staff on Wednesday after the assassination, telling members to go home and hug their families, the Wall Street Journal reported.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • With his latest weigh-in blunder, there's no telling whether Dana White, who has publicly criticized Gastelum for his egregious weigh-in mishaps in the past, will cut the longtime vet.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But discovering the addresses was only half the problem.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Commissioner of the Utah Department of Public Safety Beau Mason said that authorities had used the footage to track the suspect's movements, which led to them discovering a firearm believed to have been used in the attack.
    Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Investment firms are already advising clients to adjust their portfolios in anticipation of lower interest rates.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Air quality alerts published by the National Weather Service (NWS) spanned large portions of Washington and Idaho on Monday, with officials advising at-risk residents to take steps to avoid potential health impacts.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Appreciation means valuing the struggle of learning, not despite its difficulty but because of it.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Laura is frantic about saving Daniel after learning Cherry pushed her father from a construction site, fracturing his spine in two places.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When a small job of filling in a hole that a pet has dug or where a root has rotted, homeowners can easily handle this type of job themselves.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Kelley said the school’s full-time deputy is on medical leave, and multiple part-time officers are filling in the gap.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Nepal’s current bout of political unrest started in early September, when a group of young Nepalis, fed up with seeing politicians’ children posting about their designer handbags and luxury travel while most people struggle to make ends meet, organized a peaceful protest.
    Sugam Pokharel, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Most of all, the United States must create the capacity for advanced recycling that is seeing investments happen mostly overseas.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Wising (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wising%20%28up%29. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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