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YOLOing

YOLOing is the present participle and gerund of YOLO.

Meaning of YOLO

Verb

YOLO (third-person singular simple present YOLOs, present participle YOLOing, simple past and past participle YOLOed)

  1. To make the most of the present moment.
    • Dario Amodei […] has cautioned that if the real numbers go off course, big spenders could face bankruptcy as a result of “Yolo-ing” on capital expenditure, a reference to some of his peers' you-only-live-once exuberance.2026 March 28, John Foley, quoting Dario Amodei, “Can Big Tech profit from AI spree?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7

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Questions about YOLOing

What is YOLOing the present participle and gerund of?
YOLOing is the present participle and gerund of YOLO.

Words near YOLOing in the dictionary

  1. Yolngu
  2. yolo
  3. Yolo County
  4. Yoloaiquín
  5. YOLOed
  6. YOLOing
  7. YOLOs
  8. Yolŋu
  9. Yolŋus
  10. YOM
  11. Yom HaDin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: YOLOing (page history and authors); YOLO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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