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

Instead, Wilson and Nabokov clashed over a gerund.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2016

The gerund in Do is formed by placing ni after the negative root or the negative present tense; e.g., aguezuni or aguenuni 'by not offering.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.

“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

In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker