- present participle of pace.
pacing
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Intel’s stock is pacing toward a double-digit drop as a PC slowdown spooks investors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
In their filmmaking, Schoenbrun sometimes struggles to apply broader themes within a minute-to-minute narrative, creating pacing issues that reveal a dissonance between intention and execution.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Demand for our leading vacation experiences remains strong, and while it is still early, 2027 bookings are pacing ahead of historical levels at higher rates,” Chief Executive and Chairman Jason Liberty said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Many observers criticised the format of the debate, which was described as chaotic at times, with each of the candidates pacing around the TV studio as the other was speaking.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
There were dozens of other dogs yapping and barking and anxiously pacing around in their cramped cages.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
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He was doing one of his violent pacings up and down, and every turn backwards or forwards he had to change his course, for the tide was running in fast.
From Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
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