filling in

verb

Definition of filling innext
present participle of fill in
1
as in informing
to give information to my friend quickly filled me in on the portion of the movie that I had missed

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2
as in standing in
to serve as a replacement usually for a time only she's only filling in while the regular secretary is on vacation

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filling in
  1. informing
  2. telling
  3. advising
  4. instructing
Verb
  • State labor officials ordered the county in its report to stop all anti-collective bargaining actions, distribute the determination letter to all employees and post a notice informing employees about their rights under state law.
    Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Details from the indictments make clear that federal prosecutors were aware of the underlying schemes for months or longer before informing voters.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of informing
Verb
  • There’s no telling what’s in other batches, or if additional substances that the researchers didn’t have the capacity to test for may have been included as well.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Known for their viral phone accessories (in particular the Puffer & Social Media Seriously Harms Your Mental Health cases), Urban Sophistication built a cult following by reinterpreting the everyday objects, telling a story behind every design.
    Angela Lei, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of telling
Verb
  • The State Department is advising against travel to Haiti in the midst of violent political turmoil.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • There’ve been a lot of studies advising us that a lack of sleep negatively affects health.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of advising
Verb
  • After a local court ratified the city council’s ban, police moved in, instructing protesters to leave and rounding up more than 100 of them.
    Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Intelligent interrogation involves instructing large language models to perform in ways that generate better outcomes—by, say, breaking processes down into steps or visualizing multiple potential paths to a solution.
    H. James Wilson Paul R. Daugherty, Harvard Business Review, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of instructing
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