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  • verb Present participle of transpire.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective that is passing through

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Examples

  • What appears to be transpiring is a pattern of behavior that many people of both parties find pathetic and disgusting.

    DNC reacts: Palin decision 'continues a pattern of bizarre behavior' 2009

  • “Beautiful words,” and the phrase transpiring up through the crust of pain humbled him.

    Tender is the Night 2003

  • What interests me most is their online word processor, Buzzword, recently acquired from Virtual Ubiquity; reports are that it’s heads, if not heads and shoulders, above the competition; but alas it’s what I call a transpiring beta and I’ve only just now sent in my email request for an account, with nothing leaking my way yet out of the system.

    Adobe Share — Slaw 2007

  • What interests me most is their online word processor, Buzzword 1, recently acquired from Virtual Ubiquity; reports are that it’s heads, if not heads and shoulders, above the competition; but alas it’s what I call a transpiring beta and I’ve only just now sent in my email request for an account, with nothing leaking my way yet out of the system.

    Slaw » Adobe Share » Print 2007

  • What interests me most is their online word processor, Buzzword, recently acquired from Virtual Ubiquity; reports are that it’s heads, if not heads and shoulders, above the competition; but alas it’s what I call a transpiring beta and I’ve only just now sent in my email request for an account, with nothing leaking my way yet out of the system.

    Adobe Share — Slaw 2007

  • There were two outstanding retellings of Vergil's Aeneid this year, with Jo Graham (also a debuting novelist) taking the historical fiction approach (with Mary Stewart-like hintings of magic around the corners, if not explicitly demonstrated) in Black Ships, while Ursula Le Guin has written one of her best works in years with Lavinia, which dares to step within Vergil's poem and to see the events transpiring from the perspective of Lavinia, who was muted in Vergil's poem.

    MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III) 2008

  • “Only that something may be transpiring on Romulus.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • “Only that something may be transpiring on Romulus.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • And that's what's transpiring right now in The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, a new revue at 59E59.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: Cy Coleman's Best is Yet to Come is Here Now at 59E59 Theaters David Finkle 2011

  • “Only that something may be transpiring on Romulus.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

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