ing

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After decades during which the northeast Pacific showed little response to a warm ing climate, researchers found, the heat waves coincided with the pollution cuts.

From Science Magazine • May 8, 2024

But there was a much more nefarious "ing" at work here: framing.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022

She got dizzy walk ing from the bedroom to the couch.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2021

From there, Oates catalogs all the things this poem is not: no “sere grasses hiss- / ing like consonants / in a foreign language,” no “metonymic moon / time-traveling for wisdom,” lampoons of bad poetry.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2021

“I’m going to be six years old in September. I got to stop suck' ing on my knuckle once I’m six,” said Sweetie Pie.

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo