- present participle of pace.
pacing
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There’s been some discourse about the art of the slow burn and how the pacing has changed in an era of short episode orders and unpredictable renewals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“I don’t hear any noises,” he said, pacing a raised floor above a chamber that circulates air to cool servers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Amodei also said pacing would not mean halting model training or technical progress.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Torres-Pena was pacing the corridor believing he was about to leave, the inquest was told.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Now he was visibly upset and began pacing in his cell.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Much of Mr. Roberts’s movement for that quartet of dancers, despite some upper-body torsioning and unison pacings, presents repeated articulations for their arms, suggesting the flapping of wings, which grows monotonous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
The rising United Kingdom-based bandleader Nala Sinephro plays harp and electronics, with a pull toward weightless sounds and meditative pacings, so comparisons to Alice Coltrane are inevitable.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
In the 20th century, technology made it ever easier to regulate the production of sound, with electronic music allowing for perfectly even pacings.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
Once, in the midst of his pacings, he fell right off his platform.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were no aimless wanderings and pacings to-day.
From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
