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developing
adjective as in changing
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adjective as in embryonic
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adjective as in emergent
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appearing, budding, coming, efflorescent, emanant, emanating, issuing forth, outgoing, rising
adjective as in green
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budding, burgeoning, flourishing, foliate, growing, immature, infant, juvenile, maturing, pullulating, recent, sprouting, supple, unripe
adjective as in growing
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burgeoning, expanding, flourishing, spreading, thriving, viable
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amplifying, animate, augmenting, budding, crescent, dilating, enlarging, fructifying, germinating, living, maturing, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, swelling, waxing
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adjective as in improving
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bettering, correcting, elaborating, fixing, remodeling, repairing
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adjective as in increasing
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accumulating, augmenting, booming, broadening, enlarging, flourishing, maturing, multiplying, proliferating, snowballing, sprouting, swelling, waxing, widening
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adjective as in infant/infantile
adjective as in juvenile
adjective as in living
adjective as in maturing
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advancing, aging, blossoming, consummating, evolving, growing, mellowing, perfecting, preparing, sprouting, sweetening
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adjective as in ongoing
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advancing, evolving, extant, heading, in process, in progress, marching, progressing, unfinished, unfolding
adjective as in progressive
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accelerating, advancing, continuing, escalating, evolving, improving, increasing, intensifying
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advanced, continuous, dynamic, enterprising, go ahead, graduated, moving forward, ongoing, up-and-coming, up-to-date
adjective as in revolutionary
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advanced, advancing, cutting edge, forward-looking, just out, open-minded, state-of-the-art, up-and-coming
adjective as in thriving
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booming, burgeoning, flourishing, growing, healthy, prosperous, robust, wealthy
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advancing, arrived, blooming, cooking, progressing, prospering, roaring, rolling
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doing well, going strong, have it made, have the wherewithal, home free, on top of heap, prolific, rich, sitting pretty
adjective as in young
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adolescent, blooming, blossoming, crude, fledgling, green, growing, infant, inferior, junior, juvenile, little, modern, newborn, punk, raw, recent, tender, tenderfoot
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boyish, boylike, burgeoning, callow, childish, childlike, early, fresh, girlish, girllike, half-grown, ignorant, newish, not aged, pubescent, puerile, undeveloped, undisciplined, unfinished, unfledged, unlearned, unpracticed, unripe, unseasoned, untried, unversed, vernal
noun as in aging
noun as in blossoming
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noun as in development
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advancement, evolution, expansion, improvement, increase, progress
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addition, adulthood, advance, augmentation, boost, buildup, chrysalis, enlargement, flowering, hike, maturation, maturity, ontogenesis, ontogeny, progression, reinforcement, ripening, spread, spreading, unfolding
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adding to, advancing, augmenting, elaborating, evolvement, evolving, increasing, making progress, maturing, ongoing, perfecting, reinforcing, unraveling, upgrowth, upping
noun as in unfolding
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addition, adulthood, advance, advancement, advancing, augmentation, augmenting, boost, buildup, elaborating, enlargement, evolution, evolving, expansion, growth, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, maturation, maturing, maturity, perfecting, progress, progression, reinforcement, reinforcing, ripening, spread, spreading, unraveling, upping
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Example Sentences
The Paris accord calls for developed countries to lead the way in reducing emissions, and requires them to help finance the transition of developing countries away from fossil fuels.
Drug companies have been putting more research dollars into developing specialty treatments instead, which often come in the form of injections or infusions and require different types of storage and transportation.
“We also need to reduce our costs for developing, constructing, and operating offshore wind farms to strengthen our competitiveness.”
Moscow has long sought to present itself as a benefactor to countries across Africa and much of the developing world, motivated in part by the hope of gaining permanent access to the Indian Ocean.
However Prof O'Neill said it was devastating news, particularly for those involved in developing the strategy and the schemes that are already under way.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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