- present participle of lean.
leaning
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My feeling is he is leaning towards continuing, but only if he feels he can be confident Aston Martin will be in decent shape next year.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“When a film is released in Imax or shot in Imax, I think it’s a signal to audiences that it’s somewhat special, and the filmmaker is really leaning in in a unique way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
She’s very risk-averse — especially when it comes to her finances—so she’s leaning toward conservative options like CDs or a high-yield savings account.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Beijing has also been leaning on its coast guard as it seeks to enforce control over an area through which trillions of dollars of trade passes each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Tess said, leaning in to get a better look at it.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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I’m hoping that on this 250th anniversary, people put their political leanings aside and celebrate America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Stratton, who stressed her progressive leanings throughout the campaign, defeated two of the state’s congressional representatives, Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly, and was declared the victor by the Associated Press.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Resendez typically sees responses shift more according to income level than political leanings.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
But sometimes the person trying to help you through a weak moment is, for the duration of that task, just a person—not a pundit or podcaster with problematic leanings.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026
In Berlin, he knew, an ambitious liberal democracy with socialist leanings was shedding the husk of its past and guiding the birth of a new republic in the thirties.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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