impacting

verb

Definition of impactingnext
present participle of impact
1
as in affecting
to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response the tragic loss of his father impacted the boy for the rest of his life

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2
as in colliding
to come into usually forceful contact with something the damage sustained when a car going 40 miles an hour impacts with a brick wall

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3
as in embedding
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter the bullet was found impacted in the police officer's protective vest

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impacting
  1. affecting
  2. colliding
  3. embedding
  4. bumping
  5. slamming
  6. lodging
  7. hitting
  8. ramming
Verb
  • The reasons for this are complicated—Michelle Harrison, cofounder of the index, points to populist backlash affecting all incumbents but also the rise of young men who say that feminism is the root of their problems.
    Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • There are also far too many songs in A Complete Unknown—most are profoundly affecting, but a few ought to have been strategically trimmed.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of affecting
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  • Those protons colliding with electrons or antineutrinos no longer produce neutrons, and neutrinos and positrons that collide with neutrons no longer produce protons; the period of protons and neutrons interconverting into one another has ended.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl who last year fled from his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo to the hard streets of Manhattan, died in February after colliding with a building on the Upper West Side.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of colliding
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  • By embedding these considerations into their planning, businesses can address immediate AI needs while preparing for future demands.
    Steve McDowell, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Research from the Journal of Public Relations supports this, showing that organizations embedding core values into their strategies achieve stronger brand equity and higher customer loyalty.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of embedding
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  • Stock market valuations - The meme stock games that began in 2021 are stretched, the artificial intelligence bubble is bumping into realities, and the hundreds of walking dead companies are stumbling towards oblivion.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The team Little Pocket Monsters ultimately answered with the correct title, bumping its total score to 20,200 after the question.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of bumping
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  • The cabinets themselves all come with soft-close doors with magnets, so owners don’t have to worry about them slamming or accidentally opening while hitting bumps on the road.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Hurricane Beryl became the first Category 4 hurricane on record to form in the month of June, slamming into the island of Carriacou in Grenada.
    ISABELLA O’MALLEY AND MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of slamming
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  • This approach aims to increase productivity by over 50 percent, enabling the company to expand its product range to mid-rise townhouses, multi-family homes, and lodging facilities.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In county governments across the country, officials who fear elections are vulnerable to fraud have been taking matters into their own hands, lodging protests and investigations.
    Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
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  • As a team, the Trojans capitalized on their opportunities at the free-throw line, hitting 22 of 25 attempts, while the Bulldogs only made six trips to the stripe.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Despite the heavy-hitting lineup, none of the above felt remotely corporate, overly earnest, or organized within an inch of its life, as so many charity events are.
    Vogue, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of hitting
Verb
  • Still, with a narrow majority in Congress, multiple reports suggest the president-elect is reluctant to expend too much political capital on ramming Hegseth through the Senate and has begun exploring alternatives.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Over the past year, Chinese forces have escalated their aggressive tactics, including blocking maneuvers, ramming, water cannons, and on at least one occasion wielding melee weapons against Philippine personnel.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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