Thesaurus results for SIGNALING

signaling

verb

variants or signalling

present participle of signal

as in motioning

to direct or notify by a movement or gesture signaled the oncoming traffic to stop while the wrecked car was being towed away

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Recent Examples of signaling The company has been signaling that the Vans business would turn around first in its DTC channel, followed by wholesale. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026 But Canada, Australia, and 15 European countries, including Germany, abstained, and several Caribbean governments abstained or stayed away, signaling fading support for the Cuban government’s anti-embargo campaign. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026 Naturally, the team now wants to unravel how the neurons are signaling and processing feedback across these connected machines, and also see if adding more connections could shift the needle even further in the right direction. — New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2026 Some viruses are known to tap into this same signaling pathway, so examining YAP and TAZ may offer a window into whether mechanical forces and infection influence one another. — Karin Wuertz-Kozak, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026 However, signaling tighter policy could put more strain on the housing and labor markets. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026 The Colts fired general manager Chris Ballard last week, signaling an impending teardown. — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2026 The team at the University of California, San Francisco, who conducted the study, used blood tests to measure five different signaling molecules involved in inflammation in participants, both before and after two sessions with psilocybin. — Will Stone, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026 Actions by either side that are intended as limited coercion, signaling, or leverage might be misread, thus triggering a self-reinforcing action-reaction cycle in which each side’s effort to restore deterrence instead erodes it. — Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026

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Tight end John Bates lined up out wide to the far side, motioning to hurry up.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
My parents use chopsticks, lifting their bowls and motioning the food into their mouths.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of motioning

Verb

Many of those violet-clad, towel-waving fans packed Chase Center for a Game 4 watch party.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
The cast members, if not running to de-wig and get into their next costume, can be seen dancing, waving and greeting others buried in that centre-stage circus.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of waving

Verb

This is a subject far older than this Lean-In-era epiphany, yet New Stanford stops short at gesturing faintly in the direction of conversations that could theoretically be had.

— Judy Berman, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Prescott then can be seen speaking to Cowboys security and gesturing toward the other man.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of gesturing

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