- present participle of name.
naming
Example Sentences
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It was a shell game so profitable that no one had any interest in naming it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
It also maintains the sector’s overweight rating, naming Muangthai Capital and Krungthai Card as its top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
When we adopted her, her name was Riley, but I did think about naming her after Mrs. Hughes from “Downton Abbey.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Maine Democrats now face a more immediate problem: naming a nominee by late July through a compressed state party process.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
For reasons that were never fully explained, the privilege of naming the dog went to a friend of my older sister's, a fourteen-year-old girl named Cindy.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
