APPRISING Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in informing

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verb

present participle of apprise

as in advising

to give information to let me apprise you of the current situation

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Recent Examples of apprising

Verb

The White House team is required to file a report apprising the court of the status of their compliance within 21 days after the date the order takes effect. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Katrina was charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, false informing and failure to report a corpse, while Hopkins was also charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and failure to report a corpse.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026

Definition of informing

Verb

Lacking credibility While the grand jury found Hay’s testimony transparent and credible, the testimony of Jeff Aaron, the lawyer advising the Hope Florida Foundation’s board, was not, according to the report.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Pitchers are disguising their four-seamers up with more cutters in than ever before, so just advising him to be more aggressive in the zone is not good enough.

— Eno Sarris, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of advising

Noun

Meta agreed to impose changes including a default two-hour daily time limit for teens across Facebook and Instagram, muted notifications during school hours, and enhanced parental controls, with more updates potentially on the horizon.

— Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
The settlement includes changes to how teens experience the platforms, like a two-hour daily time limit and muted notifications during school hours.

— Ashlee Difuntorum, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of notification

Verb

Those are police officers and people up high at CPD, literally calling me, meeting with us, telling us that morale’s at an all-time low.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Dawadi ordered those already there to leave and called bus drivers, telling them to only stop at safer places.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of telling

Noun

Police in Medellin, Colombia, arrested Hernandez in July 2025 after learning Interpol issued a Red Notice, an international alert notifying law enforcement to hold a wanted fugitive.

— Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
But at Disneyland on Friday, vacationers in matching T-shirts, toddlers in princess dresses and mouse-eared parents pushing strollers made their way through security checkpoints giving little attention to signs posted nearby notifying guests of the theme park’s new facial recognition policy.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of notifying

Verb

On stage three, the Vuelta partially climbed down, restricting Jons’ access to riders and their entourage and instructing her to tone down the nature of her content.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Court has adjourned for the day, with Judge William Sullivan instructing the jury that the presentation of evidence is likely to conclude tomorrow.

— NBC News, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2026

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