- present participle of pass.
passing
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This could help explain why older adults often have valuable strengths in teaching, mentoring, storytelling, and passing knowledge to younger generations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
The driver did a U-turn to get back to her after passing, he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Even passing details of a beanbag in a frat-house game of cornhole—“its lumpiness shifting and contorting in flight”—are imbued with charming affection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
After going 7-3 and breaking the school’s single-season touchdown passing record Croick once held, all of the team’s star players graduated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Nighthand followed; anyone looking closely might have seen a pink tint passing, sunrise-like, over the skin of his neck and cheeks.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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