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developing
[ dih-vel-uh-ping ]
adjective
- undergoing development; growing; evolving.
- (of a nation or geographical area) having a standard of living or level of industrial production well below that possible with financial or technical aid; not yet highly industrialized:
the developing world.
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Other Words From
- nonde·velop·ing adjective
- self-de·velop·ing adjective
- unde·velop·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of developing1
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Example Sentences
France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday.
It could dramatically improve quality of life in communities throughout the developing world.
I ended up developing a blister on one of my vocal cords, so that kinda sucked.
I am so sorry that your parents did this to you, developing their own discriminatory take on your existence.
We are developing a strategy next year that will permit them to march in the street.
Meanwhile, another form of imitation is developing, the fashioning of lasting semblances.
And his mind at least was happy in its new sense of expansion and acquisition, its increasing and developing powers.
Here the legs may have grown the longer, there the arms, the limbs developing in accordance with their degree of employment.
"But I do not observe any symptoms of that malady developing themselves at present," added the doctor.
Their intelligence is of a generalized character, and is capable of developing in new channels.
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