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dabbling

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verb

present participle of dabble

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Recent Examples of dabbling
Verb
Thanks to wetland protections, dabbling and diving duck populations have jumped 24% since 1970, while waterbirds are up 16%, per the report. Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025 Success doesn’t come from dabbling in a dozen different directions. Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025 His father, Jean-Philippe, was a basketball player and after dabbling in basketball and soccer, Fils chose tennis. Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025 Clones are as much a sci-fi staple as robots, spaceships, and time travel, with every major franchise dabbling with duplicates somewhere down the line. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dabbling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dabbling
Adjective
  • Beautiful glassware/barware and accessories for a table or entertaining space are still strong sellers.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Instead, Stratton has noticeably regressed as WWE Women’s Champion after a very entertaining run as Ms. Money in the Bank.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Pearl Breed: Pit terrier mix Age: 2 years old Pearl is a cuddly, goofy, playful pup looking for her forever home.
    Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Betty’s world is introduced with real decor, like a big grey bed and an amusingly goofy invention of Grampy’s, but the handmade quality falls by the wayside as most of the rest of David Rockwell’s sets are conjured via that old menace, the big flat LED screen.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Then something strange happened — the Falcons started playing like one of the best defenses in the league.
    Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Deion Sanders began his NFL career with the Falcons in 1989, also playing baseball for the New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves well into the 1990s.
    Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Grey’s Memorable Moments View List Also, Blue is pretty fun, so wasn’t Winston’s instruction not to talk at the baseball game kinda… mean?
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Part of the invitation design, and part of the idea of curating your event, also includes really fun attire recommendations.
    Maria Ward, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Small or midsize businesses with a website could be targeted by frivolous lawsuits.
    Daryl Lim, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The big picture: North Carolina is one of a handful of states without an anti-SLAPP law, according to the Institute for Free Speech, which protects people from frivolous lawsuits intended to keep them quiet.
    Alexandria Sands, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Six books offer readers armchair travel, amusing characters, and a dash of history.
    Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Thankfully, in the case of Mark, the reality proved to be something much more amusing.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This strategy worked for him for about 10 years—and then began to bore him silly.
    Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Props to the people who green-lit Angry Birds to give kids a silly movie about infanticide.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • With that much water needed for even the most trifling tasks, the natural question becomes: How does that water reach those data centers, let alone the world’s farms and factories?
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010
  • And yet the movie’s insularity feels trifling and empty.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024

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“Dabbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dabbling. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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