- present participle of name.
naming
Example Sentences
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Maine Democrats now face a more immediate problem: naming a nominee by late July through a compressed state party process.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Two units of Susquehanna International Group filed the lawsuit in federal court in New York on Monday, naming up to 100 “John Does” as the defendants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Ayo, it was really touching to see Syd naming Tina her chef de cuisine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The BBC is not naming them so as to protect the child's identity.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
First cartographers, then mathematicians, then anatomists, and then astronomers began to play the game, which was inherently competitive and immediately gave rise to priority disputes and, more slowly, to eponymic naming.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
