ADMINISTERING (TO) Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

administering (to)

verb

present participle of administer (to)

as in ministering (to)

to attend to the needs and comforts of volunteers administering to the terminally ill at a hospice

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The Saints could be without star quarterback Brailon Davis who’s nursing an injury, but backup Bodie Brown has stepped in and completed 32 of 45 for 454 yards and seven touchdowns in the past two games.

— Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
Orlando has spent decades nursing an enormous inferiority complex to the bigger, older, richer, and more historically relevant cities in Florida, the Southeast, and the East Coast.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026

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The Holistic Touch treatment uses Ayurvedic techniques to rebalance the body’s energy, including healing poultices and marma-point stimulation.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Recognizing this divine reality even a little, brings tangible, healing comfort to anyone who opens up their heart to it.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2026

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Rather than treating logistics and air defense as entirely separate missions, the same basic platform could support different tasks through modular equipment and mission-specific configurations.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
The first generation to grow up with free trades on their phones is treating the election as a market event.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

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