carries out

verb

present tense third-person singular of carry out
as in fulfills
to carry through (as a process) to completion carried out the task efficiently and cheerfully

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Recent Examples of carries out China sends military planes, as well as Coast Guard ships and other vessels towards Taiwan on a daily basis and carries out large-scale military exercises from time to time. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 The superintendent heads up the California Department of Education, carries out policies set by the state Board of Education and is an ex-officio member of the state’s higher education governing boards. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 3 June 2026 Hitler comes to power; Lajos, by now a regional administrator, reluctantly carries out the Nazis’ orders, consigning the local Jewish population to death; Ilona and her husband flee to America by way of Switzerland. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026 The company showcased the upgrade in a video where Spot reads a handwritten to-do list and carries out tasks such as organizing shoes, picking up cans, and placing clothes in a laundry basket. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026 Noem testified during a shutdown during a war Noem’s testimony came during a shutdown at DHS as Democrats demand changes to the way Trump carries out his immigration agenda. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026 His administration has thrown its support behind Netanyahu, though, as Israel carries out its ground offensive in Gaza City. — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carries out
  1. fulfills
  2. performs
  3. accomplishes
  4. achieves
  5. executes
  6. does
  7. carries off
  8. makes
Verb
  • With Blue in the Face, Koy fulfills a two-special Netflix deal inked in 2023.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026
  • In the town of Paradise, Montana, a historic hot springs resort quietly fulfills the promise of the town’s idyllic name.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of fulfills
Verb
  • What is particularly clever about the Blue Economy VITAL is that the same thermal infrastructure also performs other heavyweight tasks, including desalination.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Their experiments used three independent quantum routers and a two-layer network to examine how the approach performs on existing hardware.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of performs
Verb
  • If grilling, closing the grill for the final minutes accomplishes the same result.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2026
  • To that end, the siblings might argue that their duties to the trust include maximizing its value to the benefit of the Buss children and that selling at this time accomplishes such a goal.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of accomplishes
Verb
  • Vandell, as a bar, achieves the same qualities as our best ambitious, rooted restaurants.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Those systems can achieve a 50%-60% yield in the optimal particle size range, while the refractory atomizer typically achieves 10%-20% yield for high-temperature alloys, according to the press release.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of achieves
Verb
  • In moderate traffic conditions, BlueCruise executes all of the above smoothly and predictably without requiring driver input.
    — Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Assume, further, that management executes well and that the efficiencies are real.
    — Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of executes
Verb
  • So does Frédéric Fontang, who coaches Jiří Lehečka, and Michael Russell, who coaches Taylor Fritz, and Jamie Delgado, who coaches Grigor Dimitrov.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The best form of flattery is imitation, and Robert Pattinson does an incredible impression of Chris Hansen for A24’s new movie, Primetime.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of does
Verb
  • These are fed through a hopper into the reactor vessel to produce a self-regulating fission reaction and are cooled by helium gas that carries off the heat to a heat exchanger to generate steam for electrical generators.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Definition of carries off
Verb
  • However, some of them could just be holding roster spots until Dallas makes some other moves in the next 24 hours.
    — Jon Machota, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • And that makes a lot of sense – recognizing that biology and human-made technologies are not mutually exclusive.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of makes

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“Carries out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carries%20out. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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