spiriting

present participle of spirit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiriting
Verb
  • Three Los Angeles County men have been arrested for allegedly snatching high-end jewelry from victims who were walking to their vehicles in Fullerton earlier this year, police said.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • One said bump is a particularly nasty, literal wig-snatching fight between Vida and Chi-Chi.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The camera was also capturing a growing blurring of the boundaries between the Japanese and Taiwanese urban elite in colonial society.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of using a single bulky lens, the camera employs a thin mask embedded with dozens of tiny lenslets, each capturing a unique perspective of the same object.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But many of the best-in-class companies are seizing on the chance to innovate and evolve.
    Shefali Kapadia, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Since seizing effective control over the area after a 2012 standoff with the Philippines, China's coast guard has sought to keep local anglers away from the traditional fishing ground.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Spiriting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiriting. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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