Proceeding and Working

Proceeding

Proceeding adjective - Being in progress or development.

Usage example: currently proceeding projects include construction of a new school gym

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Working and proceeding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead the word "Proceeding" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: proceed, proceeded

Working adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Proceeding and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Proceeding" instead the word "Working" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: work, works, worked, workable, worker

few

few proceeding

few working

Please Put Some Clothes On: In a rather unusual example for the show, Lauren asks Dyson, who has been working out topless, to please put a shirt on before proceeding with teaching her self-defence.

Source: Series / Lost Girl
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
Everything seems to be proceeding the same way in the show, up until Nora swaps out the working batch of Harmless Freezing formula with one of the failed, not-so-harmless batches while Victor isn't looking, opting to die rather than wake up to a world where Victor is either dead or in prison.

Source: Not His Sled

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