1
: the pursuit of running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent
2
: the act of one that courses
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Still, these doubts don’t cloud the overall positivity coursing through this year’s responses.
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Alec Lewis, New York Times, 25 July 2025
And there was a dark comedy coursing through so much of it.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
More trees in the ground and clean energy coursing through the grid.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
That idea, revealed to him by his own homemade N,N,dimethyltryptamine coursing through his brain, changed everything for him.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
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Alec Lewis, New York Times, 25 July 2025
And there was a dark comedy coursing through so much of it.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
More trees in the ground and clean energy coursing through the grid.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
That idea, revealed to him by his own homemade N,N,dimethyltryptamine coursing through his brain, changed everything for him.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
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“Coursing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coursing. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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