expanding

verb

present participle of expand
1
as in developing
to express more fully and in greater detail an article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book

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2
as in increasing
to make greater in size, amount, or number we had to expand the list of wedding guests several times in order to accommodate all the relatives Mother wouldn't dream of excluding

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3
as in extending
to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area a spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests

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4
as in rising
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number water expands when it becomes frozen

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Recent Examples of expanding The four countries agreed Monday to continue talks on expanding cooperation among them, particularly about regional peace and security, a statement said. — Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026 Some brands are expanding their use of advance material and capacity commitments, while delaying final decisions on color, SKU quantities or market allocation. — Jessica Binns, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026 French innovator Beauer has blown up the internet a couple times over the years with clever telescopic campers that condense to within the width of the tow vehicle before expanding nearly double or triple the size at camp. — New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2026 Amazon’s Project Kuiper picked South Africa for its first African satellite launch, Microsoft is expanding its AI infrastructure, while Cisco is deepening its presence, too. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Before expanding agentic authority, ask the business owner responsible for the process to walk through the unresolved cases and the mistakes found during review. — Swapnil Upganlawar, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 The analyst believes that Crescent is not just expanding its business through acquisitions but positioning itself as a more durable company, regardless of market conditions. — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026 Note the yellow band—interest on the national debt—which is expanding fast. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 The agreement comes as electricity demand rises across the United States, driven partly by expanding data centers, manufacturing and electrification. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expanding
  1. developing
  2. increasing
  3. extending
  4. rising
  5. accelerating
  6. opening
  7. swelling
  8. augmenting
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  • In the filing, Anthropic acknowledged that its future relies on outpacing its competition in developing increasingly capable and complex large language models.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Beyond shortening competition times, the changes put particular emphasis on the roles of Goddard and JPL for developing NASA's science missions.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of developing
Verb
  • Beyond domestic challenges, CATL is also scrambling to build more plants in Europe to avoid running afoul of increasing EU protectionism.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • While the disease remains more common among women over 50, diagnoses among younger women are increasing, prompting cancer specialists to encourage earlier conversations about individual risk.
    — Melissa May, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of increasing
Verb
  • Shares of CoreWeave plunged 10% on Thursday, extending their monthly decline to 36%, while Australia's NextDC tumbled nearly 40% on Wednesday after cutting its earnings forecast.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The approval of daraxonrasib, a new life-extending drug for pancreatic cancer, is the biggest advance in decades against a notoriously hard-to-treat disease.
    — STAT Staff, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of extending
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  • Fighting autocracy and inequality The Ford Foundation frames its new plan as its answer to rising autocracy, widening inequality, and fading public trust.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • This was in 2024 and 2025, when the AI craze was in full swing and Claude and ChatGPT adoption was rising.
    — Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of rising
Verb
  • Heading across the middle as Mahomes settled into the pocket, Worthy initially seemed to settle into the middle of the field before accelerating again toward the sideline.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Strong revenue growth, and accelerating demand for our clothes globally, tells us there is a genuine appetite for our British modern luxury proposition.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of accelerating
Verb
  • New restaurants are opening in the Sacramento region this fall, from a downtown Vietnamese kitchen to a Southern California coffee chain heading to Folsom.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Since there doesn’t appear to be an on-device export function, transferring the track to my PC was as simple as opening Audacity and hitting record while playing a beat on the FM-1.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of opening
Verb
  • City Hall’s budget keeps swelling — as do the taxes needed to support it.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Engineers trying to support swelling AI workloads, video streaming, and cloud services often add thicker cables with more fiber pairs.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of swelling
Verb
  • Then there's the long-standing fascination with augmenting human capabilities with electronics.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
  • After principal photography wrapped, many months would be spent in post-production augmenting the voices to create the right tone and weave them into the overall soundscape.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of augmenting

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“Expanding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expanding. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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