- present participle of sweat.
sweating
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Investors in artificial-intelligence stocks had been sweating Anthropic’s IPO filing — but now that it’s out, they’re flooding back into the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Back on Wall Street, investors have been sweating higher oil prices and a global bond selloff that pushed Treasury yields to fresh two-decade highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
I, meanwhile, was carrying a sweating plastic cup.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
"I could hardly breathe. I was hot, I was sweating, my trousers were burning. Total blackness, I've never seen blackness like it."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
I ask, pretending I have no idea what he’s talking about, but really sweating because, oh man, what if I did it wrong?
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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