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 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 The storied jeweler on Wednesday will open its new boutique on the city’s luxury shopping street Via Tornabuoni, signaling a further step in the brand’s expansion in Italy. — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 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 Cells under stress release a signaling protein known as GDF15. — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 These hero items’ particular funk is part of a new system of signaling in a more fashion-savvy digital age, one where a pair of pump’s contrasting teal toe cap says it all. — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026 The queen produces a pheromone that is passed among bees, signaling her presence throughout the colony. — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Cellular refreshes every five to seven years, while signaling may run one standard for 20. — Stephen Farrugia, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Tucker pointed to studies that found that as little as 30 minutes of brisk walking every day can increase a signaling protein in the brain that contributes to neuroplasticity (forming and reorganizing synapses). — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for signaling
  1. motioning
  2. waving
  3. gesturing
Verb
  • 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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“Signaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/signaling. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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