paroling

verb

present participle of parole
as in rescuing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paroling
  1. rescuing
  2. ransoming
  3. enfranchising
  4. saving
  5. emancipating
  6. liberating
  7. enlarging
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  • Israel has been training and deploying its own dogs for military combat while simultaneously rescuing dogs from the Gaza Strip in humanitarian missions and finding them new Israeli homes.
    — Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Firefighters did not say if anyone needed rescuing from their vehicles.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of rescuing
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  • Abu Sayyaf was particularly notorious for kidnapping and ransoming foreigners.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Definition of ransoming
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  • The Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, as Michael Waldman writes in The Fight to Vote, was even blunter than Sumner about the necessity of enfranchising Black men.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Definition of enfranchising
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  • Parton invested time and money in causes that were important to her, including funding college tuition and saving bald eagles.
    — Maggie Penman, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Insider tip Guests can check the availability of washing machines and the public bath right from the TV in each room, saving a trip downstairs or a call to the front desk.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of saving
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  • After mutual suspicion, the two arrived at a reluctant truce in which Paul was free to bring non-Jews into the Jesus movement, emancipating them from Jewish ritual, while the original Jerusalem circle continued to keep kosher, circumcise, and all the rest.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Definition of emancipating
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  • And yet, liberating writing from the capitalist ethic has its own value.
    — M. C. Mah, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
  • For Russian propagandists, the Azov Brigade, which began as a nationalist militia, was shorthand for the supposedly fascist influences from which Vladimir Putin claimed to be liberating Ukraine.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of liberating
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  • Kim has boosted his military and diplomatic credentials in recent years by enlarging his nuclear arsenal and aligning with Russia over its war against Ukraine.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The maggots can cause painful, rapidly enlarging deep wounds, which can destroy muscle, cartilage, and bone—even the skull—if not caught quickly.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of enlarging
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“Paroling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paroling. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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