indenting

Definition of indentingnext
present participle of indent
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Verb
  • Rifkin said the minor build-out comprises adding equipment to make smoothies and carving out a coffee window where people can order from the patio.
    Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The tornado struck Marathon County on Friday afternoon, carving a path through a heavily residential subdivision.
    Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The machine performed a routine of dance moves along with human dancers, grooving to the tune of popular Imagine Dragons soundtrack Believer.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Netflix‘s KPop Demon Hunters singing voice stars took the stage at the BAFTA Film Awards in London on Sunday evening, getting a game crowd grooving.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Authentic 360 is Spanx’s take on sculpting jeans.
    Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Thus André Breton—the imperious leader of the French Surrealist group with which Alberto Giacometti had made common cause in the late 1920s—chided the artist for his return to sculpting human likenesses after 1935.
    Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Monroe County High School students are chiseling a marble sculpture for America's 250th birthday, guided by an internationally renowned artist and supported by their community.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Then the hard work began, like a sculptor chiseling a block of marble into a work of art.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The exhibition spans more than 2,000 years of boxing imagery, tracing a thread of human struggle that Louis Marchesano, the museum's deputy director of curatorial affairs and conservation, said helps explain Rocky's enduring pull.
    CBS News, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The show’s scope is epic, beginning with Adams’ legal career in prerevolutionary Boston and tracing his life and American history until his retirement and death in 1826.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Indenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/indenting. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.

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