lifting
- present participle of lift.
Example Sentences
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The police move from room to room, by torchlight - there's no power - opening wardrobes and lifting mattresses.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Adding to those anxieties is an intensifying conflict in the Middle East that is lifting oil prices and threatening to hamper the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Big Tech and the AI race have done much of the heavy lifting for the stock market over the past few years.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
Intel joins Google parent Alphabet in lifting its capital expenditures outlook for the year, highlighting the heavy costs of the artificial-intelligence infrastructure buildout that have got Wall Street worried.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
I edged closer to my brother, being careful not to give any sign of lifting or throwing my spear, and I said, “Where’s that other camp?”
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
