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re·turn·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. returning, revertingadjective

    tending to return to an earlier state

  2. returning(a), reversiveadjective

    tending to be turned back

Wikipedia

  1. returning

    In retail, a product return is the process of a customer taking previously purchased merchandise back to the retailer, and in turn receiving a refund in the original form of payment, exchange for another item (identical or different), or a store credit.

ChatGPT

  1. returning

    Returning generally refers to the act of coming or going back to a place or situation. It can also mean giving something back to its original holder or place. In computer programming, returning refers to the process of ending execution of the current function and resuming it at the point in the code immediately following where the function was called.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Returning

    of Return

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'returning' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2966

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of returning in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of returning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of returning in a Sentence

  1. Andy Lipow:

    I think the market is taking a breath, waiting to see how inventories respond to refiners in the U.S. returning back from maintenance.

  2. Jordan Traverso:

    Recent decisions about agriculture aren’t the reason for low numbers because these fish are returning from the ocean voyage as part of their journey, climate disruption is causing strings of dry years and hotter temperatures, shrinking salmon habitat and eliminating the space for them to rebound.

  3. President Nicolas Maduro:

    In the case of Venezuela we will be returning our ambassador immediately to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.

  4. Alessio Fasano:

    CORONAVIRUS IN THE US : STATE-BY-STATE BREAKDOWN The researchers found although children are less likely to get severely ill with the virus, they can easily spread it to vulnerable adults in their lives, especially if theyre in school. Roberta DeBiasi added that, based on other respiratory illnesses, children are known spreaders. The researchers also studied a rare infection that can result in heart problems fromthe childs immune response to the virus. This is a severe complication as a result of the immune response to COVID-19 infection, and the number of these patients is growing, and, as in adults with these very serious systemic complications, the heart seems to be the favorite organ targeted by post-COVID-19 immune response. She said the immune response complication should factor into vaccine production strategy. The researchers recommend wearing masks, social distancing, hand washing, a combination of in-person and remote learning and frequent testing if returning to school in the fall.

  5. John McInnes:

    If you are not fit enough to enter the United States, they are going to stabilize your condition for deportation, the steamship company was responsible for transit and your return trip. Just know that all of the immigrants returning back to Europe would likely be returning with the freight.

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