- present participle of fast.
fasting
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In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It is the fasting warming content, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
"Fasting, or controlled deprivation of food, is linked to a longer and healthier lifespan," says Dr Longo, who has spent three decades studying the effects of fasting.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The researchers examined the popular 16:8 approach to intermittent fasting.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The next morning we woke early and set out for the chapel, telling our hosts that we were fasting so as not to give them any further bother.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Little suspecting the frame of mind his communication is to find us in, and that, in place of doughty deeds and chivalrous exploits, our thoughts are turned to fastings, mortifications, and whipcord!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
Much have I envied your Art, who vouchsafeth to those who adore her Visions of heavenly splendor denied to fastings and vigils.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
Some of them wore chains, and were ruining their health with over-watchings and fastings.
From Brother Francis Less than the least by Eileen Douglas
It might have been the resort of that Hannah who departed not from the Temple but served the Lord with fastings and with prayers day and night.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
Prayer, fastings, manipulations, and all practicable privacy and quiet were his preferred appliances for closing up the devil’s avenues of access, and of barring him off from man.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
