Antonyms for returningre·turn·ing

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1. returning, revertingadjective

   tending to return to an earlier state

   Antonyms:
   progressive, forward

   Synonyms:
   reverting, returning(a), reversive

2. returning(a), reversiveadjective

   tending to be turned back

   Antonyms:
   forward, progressive

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1. returningadjective

   Synonyms:
   recurrent, recurring, intermittent

How to use returning in a sentence?

1. The Briton:

   Unfortunately, I will not be defending my World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational title, best of luck to all the competitors and I look forward to returning in 2016.

2. Stuart Cole:

   It does seem something of a coincidence that this is happening just as Ma seems comfortable returning. To me it suggests something that Alibaba has been wanting to do for some time, but has been waiting for the opportunity to do so.

3. Kameshwar Kumar:

   The quarantine centres set up for returning migrant workers were closed and so are the fever camps, returning migrant workers are going home, falling sick and there is no one keeping track. People are drinking home concoctions and depending on quacks for treatment. Most of them are dying in the process.

4. Tony Blinken:

   We still have serious differences with Iran, with regard to returning to mutual compliance with the JCPOA. Our teams are going back for a seventh round of indirect negotiations in the coming days, we'll see if we can bridge the differences, but they're real.

5. Sayed Hussain Alemi Balkhi:

   The Afghan government wants all Afghan refugees to come back to their country, but returning all Afghans at once would create many problems.

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