CARRYING OUT Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

carrying out

verb

present participle of carry out

as in fulfilling

to carry through (as a process) to completion carried out the task efficiently and cheerfully

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Recent Examples of carrying out In carrying out these responsibilities, Walters exchanged numerous emails with the client. — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026 He’s accused of using a cellphone, the internet and interstate highways, among other means, while planning and carrying out the attack, as well as staying at a hostel that serves out-of-state customers. — Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 Sit, 54, and his girlfriend, Tingfeng Liu, 24, were convicted last week – Sit on multiple counts of felony animal cruelty and other charges related to the deaths of nearly a dozen dogs, and Liu on several charges related to her help in carrying out the cremations. — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 25 June 2026 And the last, and most complex, are the regional powers financing the fighting, middle-power actors like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Iran spending huge sums to back insurgent groups while carrying out strategic military strikes in pursuit of resources and political power. — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026 Officials said one defendant, Heriberto Rodriguez of Framingham, Massachusetts, is accused of carrying out more than $546,000 in benefit fraud involving MassHealth, Social Security, housing assistance and SNAP benefits. — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026 The environmental lawsuit is the latest attempt to prevent the governor from carrying out his unpopular return-to-office order. — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026 Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations. — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 14 May 2026 Another man, Justin Sneed, confessed to physically carrying out the killing but claimed Glossip paid him to do it. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 May 2026

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And renting an empty office with nothing more to do than read the newspaper every day is rarely fulfilling.

— Robert Balentine, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
But don’t sit at home, doing random tasks for empty nonprofits, believing in the ruse of fulfilling the necessary 200 volunteer hours to get into college.

— Anya Joseph, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Definition of fulfilling

Verb

Bad Bunny seamlessly moved from the stage to the couture scene, performing on Sunday night at Plenitude Arena in Paris, before turning heads the next morning at Schiaparelli’s show at the Petit Palais in a butter yellow suit.

— Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 10 July 2026
The 24-year-old South Korean artist will also be performing on the Museum’s Ray Charles Rooftop Terrance, where attendees can enjoy the show with views of downtown Los Angeles.

— Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of performing

Verb

Together, those technologies allow the robot to learn human movements through thousands of simulated training sessions before executing them in dynamic real-world environments.

— Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
And Hamas has instead reasserted its power in parts of Gaza not occupied by Israel, recently executing a Palestinian accused of collaborating with Israel.

— Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

Definition of executing

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Bruce McLaren was a legendary New Zealand racing driver, engineer and designer regarded as one of the most brilliant, versatile minds in motorsport history, achieving rare success simultaneously as a world-class driver and a visionary constructor.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 July 2026
Saturday’s flight is a step forward for Japan in achieving the technology needed to develop a lower cost successor to the country’s current mainstay, single-use H3 series.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026

Definition of achieving

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Make Donors The Story’s Heroes Years ago, a development professional taught me to center donor communications around what the donor is accomplishing.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
The primary question is whether this crowded field of new entrants is actually accomplishing anything, or whether its members are simply tripping over one another with deleterious impact.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026

Definition of accomplishing

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Where looksmaxxing or sleepmaxxing push you to squeeze more results out of a habit, slowmaxxing asks you to squeeze more meaning out of doing less.

— Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
Crews doing the shoring work have to take precautions because their job is inherently risky, according to structural engineer Matthew Roblez.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 9 July 2026

Definition of doing

Verb

What is making physical AI possible is developments in multimodal AI.

— Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
Mystery illnesses have struck several groups of Grand Canyon rafters who paddled the Colorado River, prompting the National Park Service to investigate whether something in or along the river is making people sick.

— Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 July 2026

Definition of making

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Zeus acting for his own pleasure underlies the evolutionary tales of small groups raiding foreign shores, carrying off women.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
Before the night was out, Germans began chipping away at the barrier, carrying off chunks of one of the symbols of the diminishing Iron Curtain.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 9 Nov. 2025

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