Thesaurus results for TRANSPIRING

transpiring

verb

present participle of transpire

as in happening

to take place please tell me what transpired on the night of October 1

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Recent Examples of transpiring Plants are not transpiring that much because of the high humidity. — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026 Malaysian photographer Teoh Hui Chieh created a stunning time-lapse video of an Australian annular solar eclipse transpiring at sunrise in 2013. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026 The viewer and characters never quite know what’s transpiring as Lang expertly guides the plot with hallucinatory shots of the crime, a mirror motif, and a journalist-versus-police race to find the culprit. — Air Mail, 16 May 2026 Over a nearly six weeks beginning in March, investigators gathered evidence of 27 separate drug deals for fentanyl and methamphetamine transpiring both in and around the park, federal prosecutors said. — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026 Oil prices soared Friday on concerns about what is now transpiring in Iran and the risk of crude supply disruptions out of the Mideast. — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2026 Imagine the trash talk that might be transpiring with Lappe on second base talking to Brooks, one of his best friends who plays shortstop. — Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026 But the Padres have mostly been good enough to overcome whatever is transpiring in their peripheral vision and generally been better than expected. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026 Nearly every player on the team not in the game — even those in street garb — was standing up, fully engaged with what was transpiring on the court at Capital One Arena. — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025

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As is happening with consumers nationally, the elevated prices are impacting fans as well.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Additional safeguards have since been implemented to help prevent a similar mistake from happening again.

— Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

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The approach also reflects a quickly occurring shift in military robotics.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
Importantly, these policies should be informed by injury data so that resources are directed toward the neighborhoods, populations and circumstances where injuries are occurring most frequently.

— Narmeen Khan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

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