- present participle of fast.
fasting
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That possibility is especially intriguing because the participants had been fasting when the effects were observed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
It is the fasting warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It is the fasting warming content, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
A feast that was especially welcome at Small Eid, which marks the end of a month of daytime fasting for Ramadan.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
Sometimes it would be in an over-weening desire to rule, and then his rule would go far and beyond that of Francis', in fastings, and similar austerities.
From Brother Francis Less than the least by Eileen Douglas
The path he has chosen lies through the thorny shrubs of endurance, afflictions, necessities, distresses, stripes, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watchings, and fastings.
From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings
These priests and religious men used great fastings, of five and ten days together, before any of their great feasts, and they were unto them as our four ember weeks. . . .
He was greatly exercised in mind, too; and had he been a Roman Catholic priest he would probably have submitted himself to fastings and other penitential exercises.
From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn
Prayer, fastings, manipulations, and all practicable privacy and quiet were his preferred appliances for closing up the devil’s avenues of access, and of barring him off from man.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
