embracing

ADJECTIVE

reaching

Synonyms

STRONG

encompassing joining meeting spanning stretching touching

WEAK

ending at going up to spreading to

ADJECTIVE

retaining

Synonyms

STRONG

accommodating arresting cherishing commemorating confining employing engaging having hiring holding keeping owning possessing preserving remembering reserving restraining saving securing seizing suppressing sustaining taking treasuring withholding working

WEAK

holding back

NOUN

adoption

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acceptance approval enactment endorsement maintenance ratification

STRONG

approbation appropriation assumption choice confirmation embracement espousal following selection support

WEAK

taking on taking over taking up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disapproval opposition refusal rejection

WEAK

pass repudiation

NOUN

assumption

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acceptance

STRONG

acquisition adoption appropriation arrogation grab seizure takeover taking undertaking usurpation

WEAK

accepting assuming shouldering taking on taking up

Antonyms

STRONG

rejection

WEAK

doubt genuineness naturalness reality realness unexpected

NOUN

kissing

Synonyms

STRONG

bussing caressing necking parking petting smooching spooning

WEAK

lovemaking making out sucking face

NOUN

necking

Synonyms

STRONG

canoodling caressing cuddling fondling lovemaking parking petting smooching

WEAK

making love making out sucking face

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More employees are embracing “microshifting,” carving the workday into chunks, with intentional breaks for family time or personal replenishment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The show notes pointed to “the dancer’s wardrobe” as inspiration, embracing how fabric can have a mind of its own — gathering, draping, cascading.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

More bosses are embracing AI and insisting their staff use it.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

But embracing gate-model systems allows the company to expand its customer base beyond those using quantum for supply-chain optimization and related tasks.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Slannen gave us a new pottery piece by Agulen, an elf child embracing a tree. zhatapH and zhulpH were there, zhulpH still a toddler, since gnomes grow more slowly than humans.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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