- present participle of publish.
publishing
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of publishing
1375–1425; late Middle English (gerund); see publish, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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Assistant coroner Briony Ballard listened to evidence at London Inner South Coroner's Court before publishing a narrative conclusion on Mia's death.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
And Monday, instead of studying abstract play designs, he was publishing some impenetrable language of his own to prove a decades-old mathematical conjecture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Britain made its sovereign debt Parliament’s obligation rather than the king’s, and began publishing fiscal data.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Of course, they are not billionaires like Oprah or celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow or Reese Witherspoon, who leveraged their pre-existing stardom into profitable imprimaturs in wellness and publishing.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
But I was never clear how actual her publishing plans were.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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