impacting

verb

present participle of impact
1
as in affecting
to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response the tragic loss of his father impacted the boy for the rest of his life

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2
as in colliding
to come into usually forceful contact with something the damage sustained when a car going 40 miles an hour impacts with a brick wall

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3
as in embedding
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter the bullet was found impacted in the police officer's protective vest

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Recent Examples of impacting Shavers advocates for practitioners to shape decisions, including AI implementation, to ensure truth and prevent errors from impacting defendants and victims. — Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Here’s how the cost of credit is impacting homebuyers, and what veteran buyers can do about it. — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 As is happening with consumers nationally, the elevated prices are impacting fans as well. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Following a line of extreme destructive thunderstorms, a meteotsunami is impacting Lake Michigan, all along Chicago's lakefront and the shore in Northwest Indiana. — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 Extreme heat has now left most of England gripped by drought conditions that are impacting harvests. — Bloomberg, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 Vargas’s story had to exist as an actual book within the novel, with the possibility of impacting other characters in multiple ways. — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026 The rise of ocean living is, of course, directly impacting yacht design. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2026 There is minimal return on investment for this effort, especially while far more critical issues impacting our state exist. — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impacting
  1. affecting
  2. colliding
  3. embedding
  4. influencing
  5. bumping
  6. rooting
  7. impressing
  8. slamming
Verb
  • The event featured Georgia's congressional, Senate, House, and gubernatorial candidates discussing key economic issues affecting the state and nation.
    — Riley Bunch, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Radio got hit with a double whammy of bad news last week, affecting both AM and FM bands.
    — Richard Wagoner, Daily News, 10 Aug. 2026
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  • Brian Grazer first realized that advertising and entertainment were colliding after a meeting with General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt a decade ago.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Rookie Keyron Crawford also left practice on Thursday after colliding with Malcolm Koonce in the backfield while rushing the passer.
    — Sam Warren, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of colliding
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  • Leaders must bridge this gap by embedding engineering teams directly into diverse customer environments early on and requiring them to build for real-world operational parameters, not assumptions.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time, leaders report role transformation at twice the rate employees experience it, pointing to steady progress embedding AI into operations, yet just 17% of employees say AI is part of their daily work.
    — Neil Dhar, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of embedding
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  • Artificial intelligence and the data center boom are influencing many things across Georgia, ranging from politics and technology to debates over energy, water consumption and land use.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Taiwan's government said Hsu's case involved gaining intelligence for mainland China and influencing Taiwanese politics.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
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  • Fears that the good times might be over slashed 15% from the share price and since then the shares have been bumping along the basement of a fall of about 35%.
    — Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That leaves operators with very little room to keep bumping prices.
    — Wyles Daniel, jsonline.com, 5 Aug. 2026
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  • The easiest ways to grow new thyme are by layering or rooting cuttings in water, not soil.
    — Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Propagate catmint in late spring or early summer by cutting 3- to 4-inch-long stems, removing the lower leaves, and dipping the stems in rooting hormone.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 July 2026
Definition of rooting
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  • The crowd cheered at the joke as Duff laughed on stage, clearly impressing fans with her NBA knowledge.
    — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Those skills are put to similar use in Tony, in which Bourdain travels to Provincetown on a whim in hopes of impressing a girl (Emilia Jones) by lying about receiving a fellowship to write a novel.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of impressing
Verb
  • But, Alexanian says, policymakers also worry about overregulation slamming the breaks on useful research.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
  • At that moment, another car came in to merge and seemingly failed to notice the other vehicle stalled, slamming into the back of it.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of slamming

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