Proceeding
Proceeding noun - A usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result.
Usage example: this is not the haphazard proceeding that it may seem to the casual observer
Way and proceeding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Way" instead a noun "Proceeding".
Way
Way noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.
Proceeding and way are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Proceeding" instead a noun "Way".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Upon checking these rules, the IA promptly decided they were way too needlessly complicated and wiped them out from its memory, before proceeding to play as everyone does.
Source: New Rules as the Plot Demands -
One enterprising Hunter figured out a way around this, by numbing the cultist's entire body before proceeding, torturing him by not letting him feel it.
Source: Too Kinky to Torture -
He was said to have ordered hundreds of firecrackers when the band first toured America, proceeding to spend the next several years working his way through them.
Source: Mad Bomber
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Way and Proceeding. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/proceeding/way
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Way or Proceeding. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/proceeding/way.
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