IMPLEMENTING Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

implementing

verb

present participle of implement

as in enforcing

to carry out effectively implemented the evacuation plan without a hitch

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Recent Examples of implementing Additionally, for the past 15 years, LGBTQ Connection Napa, a local program, has been implementing LGBTQ+ humility training with businesses and non-profits across Napa County. — Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2026 County officials are now implementing safeguards around that decades-old arrangement because of the district’s financial crisis. — Chaewon Chung july 24, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026 Now international organizations and medical experts are searching for ways to rebuild and reconfigure Venezuelan public health services, from reorganizing the health system to implementing technological solutions. — Alfie Pannell, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026 The model didn’t account for climate adaptations, which virtually all of California’s winemakers are already implementing. — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026 Also, when implementing AI, organizations can run into issues with the data environment around the AI model that have nothing to do with the model itself, such as when metadata can be incomplete and field names are misleading. — Saurabh Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 The legislation would impose a three-year ban on states implementing regulations on the development of AI models. — Victoria Baeza Garcia, The Washington Examiner, 23 July 2026 The Department of Homeland Security is implementing strict time limits on student visas and limiting how international students transfer schools or change their study plans. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 July 2026 However, the details and timeline for implementing the decision remain unclear. — ABC News, 19 July 2026

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enforcing

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First is to prevent their further migration by enforcing an international treaty obliging national authorities to treat ballast waters inside incoming ships that may carry such species.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Yet many of the city’s leaders, apparently supported by voters, view enforcing bans on the open sale and use of narcotics, and forcing addicts off the streets and into treatment, as akin to an act of state repression.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

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