Thesaurus results for STAGING

staging

verb

Definition of staging

present participle of stage

as in offering

to bring before the public in performance or exhibition staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year

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Recent Examples of staging Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had avoided debating challenger Flávio Bolsonaro — the son of a former president jailed for staging a coup — but the rightist’s first-round victory put the president on the back foot. — semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026 The Jags were early adopters of the NFL's international push and began staging an annual game at Wembley in 2013, but the economic incentive to do so has been decreasing. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 There is a distinction, of course, between insisting on witnesses and staging a spectacle. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026 Unsurprisingly, this has ballooned into a national story with teammates and opponents staging protests. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Dee Lund The Navy, Army and Marines were staging ships in the area to prepare for a campaign to invade the Mariana Islands. — Aki Nace, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 For Vanselow, who began as an actor himself, working on dialogue scenes isn’t all that different from staging stunts. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026 Roan is staging her own two-day fundraiser in Los Angeles on October 21-22 to benefit trans youth and LGBTQ+ communities. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 State emergency teams are staging generators, fuel, food, water and flood barriers in the Tallahassee and Santa Rosa areas to support the response. — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

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Brennan issued a letter offering guidance from a Catholic perspective.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
As of Thursday morning, the government had filed charging documents in 10 of the 28 cases, offering additional details about how authorities relied on voter registration data to pursue broader criminal charges around immigration status.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of offering

Verb

Ahead of the 2022 election, the prime minister helped broker an alliance between Ben-Gvir’s party and Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism, giving Netanyahu enough seats to assemble a government.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
Sánchez Bezos, the fund’s vice chair since its early days, has become a more visible face of the couple’s giving.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of giving

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Protesters, many of whom have been seen carrying Palestinian flags, have set fire to historic buildings and attacked civilians.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2026
Mitchell Fairbarn was captured on surveillance video carrying the 27-year-old Chilean flamingo, Peachy, to his room after removing the bird from its enclosure at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in March.

— Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of carrying

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The share of Asian American students, who were clustered in more affluent, high-performing schools, subsequently fell.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Open-weight models would generally be exempt, but Beijing could still restrict transfers involving exceptionally large or top-performing models, potentially limiting overseas acquisitions or the movement of key personnel and intellectual property.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

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