are promising
- present progressive of promise.
Example Sentences
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Geological Survey, said the latest Scripps data are promising and the next big question is scalability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
That’s because the bubble’s promoters are promising that they can replace labor, so you can’t disentangle those two.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The regime change is much needed and there are promising signs under acting commissioner Kyle Diamantas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Although the findings are promising, the researchers emphasized that this is not a simple "turn your toes in" or "turn your toes out" recommendation.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
Frequently when prospects are promising, dissatisfaction follows marriage rather than satisfaction; and in my own case the prospects would not have been promising.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
