ATTENDING (TO) Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

attending (to)

verb

Definition of attending (to)

present participle of attend (to)

as in ministering (to)

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Relevance

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as in picking out

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Verb

Welcomed by Herky the Hornet, the cheer team and the campus community, the students and their families checked in before unloading their belongings and setting up their new rooms.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Indiana and Mathurin failed to agree to a rookie scale extension the following October, setting up February’s deadline deal.

— William Guillory, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of setting up

Verb

People wear flannel and denim while making out in the storage room of the local watering hole.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
The book has the teens making out the first night things went from friends to something more, but the show took it to another level with Bret and Debbie having sex on a lounge chair at a party.

— Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of making out

Verb

Indonesian streaming platform Vidio has partnered with ReelShort, the microdrama platform owned by Crazy Maple Studio, marking ReelShort’s first entry into the Indonesian market.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
And Europe — the world’s fastest-warming continent — has been beset by extreme weather that has caused widespread droughts and blazes, marking some of the region’s gravest natural disasters on record.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of marking

Verb

That is meaningful for schools, considering that around 90% of the United States' 480,000 school buses run on diesel.

— Willa Rubin, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Manish Tibrewal, co-founder of family office Farro Capital, said his firm has seen a sharp pickup in inquiries from Chinese families considering to relocate to Singapore.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of considering

Verb

That day in the spring brought the work of several tenacious investigators – with the assist of genetic genealogy – closer to identifying the remains.

— Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
And many doctors who certify deaths in emergency rooms and hospitals, or for patients who die at home, don't have protocols for confidently identifying heat impacts, says Khatana.

— Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

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