- present participle of proceed.
proceeding
Usage
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The noun proceeding, commonly proceedings (plural), applies to what goes on or takes place on a given occasion or to the records of the occasion: proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences. A process is a series of progressive and interdependent steps by which an end is attained: a chemical process. Procedure usually implies a formal or set order of doing a thing, a method of conducting affairs: parliamentary procedure.Example Sentences
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Proceeding this work, the team first laid out the statistical methods and protocol to ensure they were feeding the AI the right balanced diet of data.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024
Proceeding on this record would make a mockery of the Congressional and constitutional oversight process.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2023
Proceeding with little outside help, China last month launched the last of three modules for its own space station, which briefly hosted six Chinese astronauts in space during a turnover of the three-person crew.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Proceeding from store to store, we surely resembled nothing so much as uniformed missionaries from some absurdly well-funded church.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022
Proceeding forward in a jerky fashion we end up eventually in front of the general store.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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