- present participle of read.
reading
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The lower house approved the bill at first reading in January but the Senate later amended it to target only the most harmful platforms, prompting concern in Brussels.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Governance complexity, lofty valuations and the gap between narrative and profitability are worth reading carefully before the road-show hype takes over.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
But his love for reading persisted, and over the last decade he has been posting his own poems and essays on social media.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Even Miguel de Cervantes’s aging Don Quixote is driven into a phantasmagoric abyss by the reading of chivalrous romance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
He opened to the reading in Jeremiah where we had left off the night before, then with sudden inspiration passed the Bible across the table to Meyer.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The upper Midwest that's closer to the fires was especially affected, with parts of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin all recording air quality readings deep into the "hazardous" range for days.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
There are 100 feasible readings of Żuławski’s film, and just when those all seem to make sense, you could conjure up a 101st.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Wednesday’s overall weak readings come as local governments cut back fiscal spending to curb debt risks while Chinese consumers tighten their purse strings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Traders have since dialed back expectations of a rate hike after U.S. inflation readings came in softer than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Hussey continued to take meteorological readings as the summer began to fade.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
