CONDUCTING Synonyms: 120 Similar and Opposite Words

conducting

verb

present participle of conduct

as in supervising

to look after and make decisions about the company's president continues to conduct the everyday affairs of the software firm he founded many years ago

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as in directing

to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway the gutter conducts water to the curb, thus protecting the house's basement

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as in carrying

to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way conducted themselves at the party like perfect ladies and gentlemen

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as in guiding

to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front a job conducting tourists through the historical museum

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as in transmitting

to cause (something) to pass from one to another a material that conducts heat quite efficiently

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Recent Examples of conducting Raphaëlle, meanwhile, is recovering after a long rehabilitation and must confront the loss of her mobility, which prevents her from conducting investigations with her former energy. — Ed Meza, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 Iran appears to be targeting vessels conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers around the Strait of Hormuz, according to a military institute. — Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026 This is, after all, an institution that frequently has trouble passing stopgap spending bills and conducting routine legislative business. — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026 And conducting that work within Anthropic risked constraining White Circle from sharing it with the public. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026 The component repair center would focus specifically on submarine parts rather than conducting full submarine overhauls. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026 Those conducting the online scams are sometimes willing con artists, and other times trafficked foreign nationals -- many Chinese -- tricked themselves into work and held in prison-like compounds. — CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 After those results went public, embarrassing Muñiz and a few other judges, the Florida Bar stopped conducting surveys and publishing the results … leaving Florida voters with even fewer resources. — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026 The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that HHS couldn’t vary payment rates by hospital group without first conducting the acquisition-cost survey required by statute. — Casey B. Mulligan, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026

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For ShadowMachine, Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico serve as executive producers, and Musa Brooker serves as supervising director.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
The surge in profits has been driven by robust trading in stocks, bonds and currencies, fees from supervising and advising clients’ investments, underwriting initial public offerings and a pickup in mergers and acquisitions.

— John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of supervising

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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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Acting was his guiding passion, but his deep love for the avant-garde helped till the ground for the city’s theatrical renaissance that the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival catalyzed.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
That conviction is guiding the $385 billion Abu Dhabi fund on its investment decisions.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of guiding

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That role demands reliable equipment capable of transmitting strategic instructions during severe national security crises.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
The latest hotter than expected PPI figures indicate that price pressures are now transmitting from the energy sector into the broader real economy.

— , CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of transmitting

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Judge Heather Beato, appointed by DeSantis to the 10th Judicial Circuit in 2020, is overseeing the case, a court docket shows.

— Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Instead, the board should function as a concert of great powers, both democratic and autocratic, tasked with managing crises and overseeing and building consensus on matters of global governance.

— Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of overseeing

Verb

But fear not, Lisa will be channeling that energy into her art.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
The latest actor to bring method dressing into her press tour (just like Zendaya and Margot Robbie before her), Daisy Edgar-Jones is beautifully channeling a modern-day Jane Austen heroine to support her press tour for Sense and Sensibility.

— Elle Turner, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of channeling

Verb

For instance, Siri’s lack of thinking power compared with other ultra-smart AI agents means that there’s far less of a chance of going rogue, or behaving in eerie ways.

— Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Rather than behaving independently, their interactions begin to constrain how the material changes.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026

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