synthesize
verb (used with object)
to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze).
was synthesizing
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past progressiveof synthesize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“He was synthesizing new materials that still may not have been discovered 300 years later.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2019
Back then, part of the power of Time was synthesizing the cultural moment and reducing it to a single face.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
The researcher, Albert Hofmann, was synthesizing molecules from ergot—a fungus that commonly infects grains used for bread.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2018
This was a period when he was synthesizing his admiration for a few early modernist masters into a style of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2017
What Wegener did differently was synthesizing a large amount of data in one place.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
