gerund

Yglesias named his Substack “Slow Boring,” after a 1919 lecture by the German sociologist Max Weber titled “Politics as a Vocation,” wherein “boring” is not an adjective of dullness but a gerund of diligence.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023

His intentional use of a gerund in the title allows “entertaining” to be read as both doing a thing and being a thing.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

First off, nice possessive before a gerund, Jordan!

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 6, 2020

He pumped the beat, a Ugandan jive, and after shouting the gerund a few more times, he finally came to its object: “Rep-re-sen-ting UUUUUUUUUU-gan-da!”

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2016

When necessity is signified, the gerund in dum is used without a preposition, the verb est being added. 

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech

“TiVoing,” meaning to record a show for later viewing, even became one of those generic gerunds, like “Xeroxing” or “Googling.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

Muir and “WNT’s” reporters frequently eschew verbs, replacing them with gerunds in a kind of headline-style speed talk.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012

Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds.

From Time ● Sep. 8, 2011

I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover