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verb

present participle of wear
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Recent Examples of wearing
Adjective
The force of Burton’s manic personality was very wearing. Daneet Steffens, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wearing
Verb
  • These measures, intended to reduce systemic financial risks, inadvertently triggered a liquidity crisis, leaving developers unable to complete projects and further eroding consumer confidence.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • In an era of eroding public trust and red-hot campus culture wars, the public higher education is now more political than ever, said Holden Thorp, editor in chief of the journal Science and former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    Ian Hodgson, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Neither mentioned the constitutional spending cap, a measure designed to ensure fiscal responsibility that many economists blame for the fraying state of Germany's infrastructure.
    Fox News, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • And cheaper polo belts are stitched with shorter pieces of thread which will unravel over time, creating a fraying effect—but the best quality belts are stitched from longer pieces of thread which won’t unravel.
    Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Thank you for tolerating a strange British idiot.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Instead of being about a bunch of observers helplessly tolerating their peculiar friend, the sketch became an absurd illustration of the way groupthink manifests.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In fact, there are lots of folks who benefit enormously from the use of headphones in public and even require them, namely those with sensory processing disorders or symptoms of PTSD, who might find public spaces (and the amount of audio stimuli that accompanies them) to be totally overwhelming.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
  • This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • And yet, despite accepting the reality of the injury and what lies ahead of him, Moe Wagner searched for the good in the situation while keeping a smile on his face Monday.
    Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Patient demand increases should inspire us to rethink traditional staffing models and apply a balanced approach to accepting change in healthcare delivery.
    Corey Scurlock, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Otherwise, we’ll still be mired in this same agonizing debate.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Perhaps no vote was as agonizing for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican and medical doctor, than his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Trump’s health secretary.
    Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Like witnessing a bad car crash, Ye’s (formerly known as Kanye West) latest episodes of hate speech and misogyny have been painful to watch and continue to elicit shock and dismay from every corner of the entertainment world.
    David Renzer, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
  • While that decline was painful for COST holders, the stock bottomed in mid-May, five months before the S & P 500 ultimately found its own low in October 2022.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • What has to continue during the homestand that continues Saturday night against the Chicago Bulls, Adebayo said, is an ongoing reduction in the types of mistakes that have been so debilitating in recent losses.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Riz Ahmed co-wrote and stars in the lauded drama, which tells the story of Zed, a British-Pakistani rapper on the verge of his big break when he is suddenly struck by a debilitating autoimmune disease.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Wearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wearing. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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