shaping
- present participle of shape.
Example Sentences
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He pointed an audience of several hundred people to his contributions to a project called Shaping AI, a collaboration among researchers and academics meant to foster conversation about how AI is used.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Shaping up the crowd during the endless trailers, I spotted 10 other people with notebooks — no doubt fellow journalists and critics, ready to do their jobs.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026
Shaping Demogorgon, detail by detail, was like "making a clay sculpture," he said.
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
Shaping its internal structure requires extremely high temperatures, which is why steel production consumes so much energy.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
Shaping the brackets involved a hammer and . . . well, that's it, actually.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
