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Recent Examples of goose-step
On some milestone birthdays, North Korea’s military holds huge parades with goose-stepping soldiers and powerful weapons capable of targeting the U.S. and South Korea.
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Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-step
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Tom and Roy spend a lot of time trudging through heaping piles of snow or jumping into a lake that looks abominably cold.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
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Thousands of poor, tired, anonymous Montgomery women and men, who trudged through winter’s inclement weather and summer’s blistering heat for 381 days, made that boycott a success.—
Paul L. Newman,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Boston stomped the competition last season en route to winning their record 18th NBA championship.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
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As the lead-in to headliners Red Clay Strays, 49 Winchester were a hard act to follow, with singer Isaac Gibson stomping about the stage while showing off the wide range of emotion in his voice.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Servers glide around with champagne on silver trays, hors d’oeuvres are stamped with the omnipresent B and dancers in golden bodysuits undulate with glowing orange orbs in homage to bitcoin’s signature hue.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes,
30 Jan. 2025
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Kevon Looney matched his regular season career-high with 18 points and Gary Payton II (15 points, nine rebounds) stamped the game with a vicious slam dunk with under a minute left.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2025
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Abruptly, a mother on the other touchline marched across the pitch and demanded the referee stop the game.—
Katie Whyatt,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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Hundreds marched down 23rd Street in the rain as part of a student protest on Feb. 2 in Richmond, a sign of unity among a school community home to many immigrant and Latino students and those in mixed-status households.—
Sierra Lopez,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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Since winning his congressional election and subsequent Speakership title, Johnson has been treading a fine line throughout the process of budget talks as the House holds a razor-thin majority.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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But this Sunday Brady will tread new territory, calling Super Bowl LIX from New Orleans from the Fox broadcast booth, capping off his first year as the network’s lead NFL analyst.—
Alex Weprin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Feb. 2025
Verb
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But after Allen suffered a seizure in September, her family encouraged her to step away from work.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Many people were stepping on the oily tar balls on Fort Lauderdale’s beach.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
9 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Daemon the King Consort, hold the consort, please, plods through Harrenhal in a maze of his own nightmares.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
21 July 2024
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The case of the blogger accused of intimidating witnesses in the Karen Read murder trial continues to plod along, prompting his defense attorney to bring up a possible dismissal motion for lack of prosecution.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
11 July 2024
Verb
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After all, this is a man who just last week, paraded wife Bianca Censori nude on the Grammys red carpet.—
David Oliver,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami were paraded by Hamas militants during a handover ceremony on Saturday, the three latest Israeli hostages to be freed by the militant group since the implementation of the ceasefire-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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