- present participle of hug.
Example Sentences
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From August 2024 to August 2025, Chinese open-model developers comprised of 17.1% of Hugging Face downloads, while U.S. developers made up 15.8%.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 24, 2026
According to a December 2025 report from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, Alibaba’s Qwen model overtook Meta’s Llama to become the most downloaded LLM family on the open-source AI platform Hugging Face last September.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 24, 2026
Hugging the officer was a “restorative moment,” Sifuentes later told The Times, “a small amend to the law enforcement community” he harmed 26 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024
"Hugging my mum again. I'd love that. That would be special."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024
Hugging the knight's knees, he said, "I embrace the knees of the most famous of all knights, Don Quixote de la Mancha, fighter of evil and savior of the unfortunate."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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