- present participle of proceed.
proceeding
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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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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said everything was proceeding "according to plan", and paid tribute to US mediation and in particular representatives of Melania Trump.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
“I propose a new, audacious, and perhaps desperate strategy: a ‘jailbreak,’ ” it wrote to two others, proceeding to divvy up research tasks.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
During a brief court proceeding Friday, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui scheduled a preliminary hearing for Tuesday to allow Floris and Benavides to begin challenging the basis for the case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
On Wednesday, his doctors were quoted by the Vatican as saying that the pope's recovery was "proceeding as expected".
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a mes-senger hurried onto the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Barring a major last-minute surprise, the league will wind down through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and go through liquidation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Belfast Trust also refused to say if it was involved in legal proceedings in relation to liability for repair costs.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
She will remain in ICE custody pending her removal proceedings and will receive due process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Research from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory found that over 70% of care proceedings involving babies in England were emergency hearings within two days of an application being made.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The two brutal casts, always inseparable in my mind from the official proceedings, seemed to be congestively considering whether they didn’t smell fire at the present moment.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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