range
noun
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible.
ranging
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present participleof range.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The samples were exposed to pressures ranging from normal atmospheric pressure to 7 gigapascals and temperatures between 1200 and 1800 °C.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Data centres vary wildly in size, ranging from ones that fit inside a garden shed to others covering vast expanses of land.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
While I spoke with 20 people for this piece, I received 178 individual responses of all kinds, ranging from shock and awe to relative disappointment to distinctly modern moviegoing gripes.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
These improvements bettered the quality of everything ranging from radios, to television sets, to small electronic calculators, yet the agency hadn’t done a good job of explaining these benefits to the public.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
