- present participle of save.
saving
Example Sentences
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But almost three years later, she's still there, saving for a deposit on her first home.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
Evan Briggs spent a year saving for a 10-day trip from Glasgow, Scotland, to Boston and New York with his family.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026
By conserving these leopards, we are not only saving an iconic predator, but also preserving an evolutionary legacy shaped over thousands of years by one of the most distinctive landscapes on the African continent.
From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026
The city has “exceeded expectations” in food recovery, he said, saving 80 million meals that would have been thrown out and redirecting them to people in need.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
I’ll just be sitting here saving the world or maybe even the universe on my PlayStation.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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