SKIRMISHING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

skirmishing

verb

present participle of skirmish

as in brawling

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as in exploring

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Combs was previously placed in solitary confinement after brawling with another inmate back in July.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026
Latino culture typecasts hombres as eternal machos always a few drinks away from brawling or bawling.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of brawling

Verb

This poll is part of an ongoing project exploring the views of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, who are usually not highlighted in other surveys because of small sample sizes and lack of linguistic representation.

— Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Former Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins is exploring her late-in-life ADHD diagnosis for the first time in an Audible podcast.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of exploring

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Adam Rodriguez as Ruben Chapa, a trainer at the local El Centro boxing gym.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
Eubank Jr was seven years older than Benn, five years further into his professional career and, more pertinently, boxing at middleweight, three weight classes higher than super-lightweight Benn.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of boxing

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Children choose their own data, probing the world with little experiments rather than passively absorbing it and learn continuously.

— Charles Yeomans, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Drawing on economics and game theory, and using tools that range from fluorescent quantum dots to imaging robots, her lab is probing how fungi and plants conduct their trade.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of probing

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An alcoholic drink will give you a buzz, but if someone laced it with something dangerous, a new poison-snooping patch will buzz your skin to warn you.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2026
Cady had injected some narcotic into a Georgia peach to knock Natalie out ahead of his confrontation with Crystal on the houseboat, but Ray snooping around on the Bowdens’s behalf led to this deadly improvisation.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 10 July 2026

Definition of snooping

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That time comes out of prospecting, planning and relationship expansion.

— Satish Avhad, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
The prospecting company, now called Hydroma, had a small electrical plant constructed to convert the gas into power for the village’s residents.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of prospecting

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Rilke writes about solitude, love, patience and learning to live with uncertainty.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 16 Oct. 2026
The program provides training in barista skills, espresso brewing, earning a food handler’s license, learning point-of-sale systems, customer service skills, food prep and other more general workplace skills.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of learning

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There was very little original local production, and people were finding their favourite TV shows through obscure corners of the web.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
This pliability has made the app particularly popular for casual, real-time occasions—such as finding the ideal hostess gift for a weekend visit or selecting a thoughtful token for a friend—without resorting to generic fallback options.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of finding

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