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Recent Examples of pounce
Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
An American eagle, talons out to pounce on prey, compellingly highlights the contributions of Native Americans.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Feb. 2025
Amie Parnes, The Hill, 5 May 2025
By the time Schenn missed DeMelo with an easy pass and the Blues pounced for Toropchenko’s 5-1 goal, Game 7 was inevitable and the collapse was complete.
—Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 2 May 2025
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Noun
Her beauty was cold, vicious, like a leopard waiting to pounce.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
An American eagle, talons out to pounce on prey, compellingly highlights the contributions of Native Americans.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
At the same time, Critics were quick to pounce on Trump’s foreign film tariff push.
—Amie Parnes, The Hill, 5 May 2025
By the time Schenn missed DeMelo with an easy pass and the Blues pounced for Toropchenko’s 5-1 goal, Game 7 was inevitable and the collapse was complete.
—Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pounce
Noun
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But after the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the movie was retooled with a new finale before being released in theaters on June 21, 2002.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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Defense growth is solid, and [joint direct attack munition] is unique for WWD.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
24 May 2025
Verb
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In addition to a bounty of vegetables, fruits, flowers and interactive learning activities, there to meet them were cavorting goats, buzzing bees, beneficial garden creatures such as pill bugs and worms, and Howie the miniature Scottish Highland Cross steer who loves attention and animal crackers.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Similar fears haunted Europeans and British Americans during the early modern period; one need only consult the witchcraft paintings of Francisco Goya, which show covens of half-naked women killing babies, eating people, and cavorting with the Devil.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
Verb
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UConn most recently played in Boston during its 2024 national championship run, romping San Diego State and Illinois in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds to punch its ticket to Phoenix.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
28 May 2025
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Yet despite the lopsided scoreline – Nadal romped to a 6-1, 6-2 victory on the Madrid clay – Moyá was also impressed by the young Spaniard on the other side of the net.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
24 May 2025
Verb
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At the Christmas party, all the gals (minus Taylor) are frolicking around in their best black-tie-optional, cheers-ing to another year of surviving MomTok, and eating meatballs.—
Olivia Crandall,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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Nearly a hundred shiny black calves are frolicking in the pastures, including twin bulls (birthweight of 72 pounds each) whose mother is completely unruffled by this unusual occurrence and its maternal responsibilities.—
Susan Koch,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2025
Verb
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The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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All the dancers make their way inside eventually, with the elderly Bolger doing his best to gambol along with them.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Pounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pounce. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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