- present participle of impact.
impacting
Example Sentences
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The BBC’s Tessa Wong is there and breaks down how the wildfire smoke is impacting countries around South East Asia.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
He added in a report published on its website: "AI will change how work is done across industries, impacting some jobs, transforming thers and creating entirely new roles that we're only beginning to imagine."
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
It also acts as a direct point of contact for serving personnel so they can raise problems that are impacting their lives and their ability to serve.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
As The Times first reported in January 2025, west Altadena evacuation alerts came “as the fire approached and, in some cases, after it had already begun impacting the area,” the report found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But if the impacting object is larger or made primarily of rock, there is an explosion on impact that carves out a hemispherical bowl called an impact crater.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
