AIMING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

aiming

verb

present participle of aim

as in casting

to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal the new accounting system is aimed at reducing costs

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as in intending

to have in mind as a purpose or goal aimed to have his paper all done in time to go to the movies

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Recent Examples of aiming That was the case with hydraulic mining in the West, which involved aiming a torrent of water under high pressure to blast away soil and boulders to expose the underlying gold veins. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 In addition, Saint Laurent is aiming to double its sales to VICs by 2030, and to double its business in Asia within the same time frame. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026 The 2026 international guideline recommends aiming for complete symptom control while taking safety and each person’s quality of life into account. — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 12 Oct. 2026 Alché’s latest is currently in the financing stages and is aiming to shoot in the second half of 2027. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 All three are aiming to make their chains more like local mom-and-pop stores. — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 Lamm told Time in August that the company is aiming to have a woolly mammoth birth in the 2030s. — Colleen McKown, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 As with their other current CBS hit Elsbeth — and unlike their more creatively unconventional streaming shows The Good Fight and Evil — Cupertino sands down some of the Kings’ jagged edges, aiming for something cuter. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026 Through disconnected learning initiatives that were aiming for cultural change, with no existing behavioral change, the workplace that teams and managers experience seems to be exactly the same as before. — Gwen Mdinaradze, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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Endless ink has been spilled about the decline of traditional movie stars and how casting the right celebrities no longer guarantees box office success.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2026
Every researcher who quits Anthropic to write a viral letter about extinction is casting himself, in the drama running in his own head, as Oppenheimer walking away from the bomb.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of casting

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The idea is that individuals pursuing their own interests in a free market can, without intending it, advance the interests of society as a whole.

— Linda K. Brown Stroh, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
The plane was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv and was intending to land at Ben Gurion midmorning on a busy weekday.

— Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of intending

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The storm then roared into Alabama with tropical-force winds before heading farther north.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Mel Ismail, a 56-year-old father, was rescued by another surfer who just happened to show up at the beach and was willing to risk his own life by grabbing his board and heading towards the bloody water.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of heading

Verb

Museum will add new west wing The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is planning a major expansion to the west, highlighted by a two-level glass addition topped with a green roof.

— Neil Nakahodo, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2026
Waymo is planning to expand its service in London, Tokyo, and Munich.

— Andrew Hawkins, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of planning

Verb

One of the main threads of the book that drew Duffield to directing the adaptation was the father-son relationship at its core; his own son was 4 at the time of the set visit.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Earlier in the same week, North Korea reported testing tactical ballistic missiles from the area around the capital, directing them towards the East Sea.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of directing

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Ryu wins the first time, but the brothers have a falling out and start a beef with a demon named Akuna before going their separate ways.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
The company explicitly framed the ultra-high-tech monster as the roadmap for a rollout of seven new road-going models destined for global markets over the next four years.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026

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