- present participle of read.
reading
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Strong winds will bring a significant wind chill, especially on northern and eastern coasts, so it will feel colder than the reading on the thermometer would suggest.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Almost everyone can agree that K–12 schooling—with its overreliance on screens, fixation on testing, and shift away from reading whole books—is in need of a serious overhaul.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
Instead of presentations, directors had all the reading material ahead of time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Their observations showed that ozone levels directly above the South Pole fell to their lowest reading of 2026 on October 17, reaching 105 Dobson units.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
It’s my reading chair now, but before that, it was our bedtime chair.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Prior hot readings could be chalked up to something specific—energy, or used cars, or cellphone plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
So a station with too many missing or invalid readings will not contribute to official pollution calculations.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
They also collected readings using the Dobson Ozone Spectrophotometer, an optical device designed to measure atmospheric ozone.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
US jobs data is also due later in the day, following broadly positive readings earlier in the week.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Quentyn’s readings had suggested that the same thing had occurred in the Seven Kingdoms.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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