Thesaurus results for MILLING

milling

verb

Definition of milling

present participle of mill

as in grinding

to reduce to fine particles a demonstration of how dried kernels of corn were milled in colonial times

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Recent Examples of milling And who might have been milling around in the area during the Second World War? — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2026 The park features a food truck plaza, where visitors milling about on Friday could grab treats. — Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2026 Dean Ferrell is at the farmers market chatting with people and milling around the market. — Saige Miller, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026 At the time, LaFarge had been milling around California and Chicago and decided to follow his then-girlfriend up the Atlantic Coast. — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2026 Players were milling around midfield, exchanging jerseys and making small talk when Chubb appeared to say something to Jackson, who was chatting with another Bills player. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Most people milling around the neighborhood probably don’t know that blocks away, Chavarria and his team are up here, dreaming up how pop culture will look next. — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026 People were milling about in flip-flops, holding water jugs, smoking cigarettes—little to do, nowhere to go. — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Yet only a few dozen people were milling about at an event that could have hosted hundreds. — Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for milling

Verb

For decades, junior accountants learned their trade by reconciling accounts, manually entering data, and grinding through the month-end close.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
This innovation—the mass manufacture of ammonia, vastly more efficient than scraping guano off remote islands or grinding mountains of bison bones—removed the most critical nutrient bottleneck in global agriculture.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of grinding

Verb

Groups of young people were seen dancing with music pounding through the crowd as meters away tear gas billowed into the air.

— Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
At the moment, the good detective is strutting around the float, kicking the wheels and pounding the floorboards.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of pounding

Verb

That album, like the Dio Sabbath classics before it, was fine-tuned for metalhead appreciation, thick with crushing riffs and dramatic vocals.

— Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
Elsewhere, Leipzig bounced back from heavy defeats against Bayern Munich and Real Madrid by crushing Elversberg 4-0.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026