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Recent Examples of pounce
Lili Anolik, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
Haaland pounces on the loose ball and finishes in typically clinical style.
—Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024
The fund pounced: according to Securities and Exchange Commission 13F filings, the hedge fund accumulated a stake of 4.4 million shares in Nvidia, worth about $62 million, during the quarter ending in June of 2013.
—Tae Kim, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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Noun
There might have been an unconscious malice — a glee — to my pounce.
—Lili Anolik, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
Haaland pounces on the loose ball and finishes in typically clinical style.
—Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
Verb
Still, days away from the Nov. 5 election, Democrats are pouncing on the gaffe.
—Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024
The fund pounced: according to Securities and Exchange Commission 13F filings, the hedge fund accumulated a stake of 4.4 million shares in Nvidia, worth about $62 million, during the quarter ending in June of 2013.
—Tae Kim, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pounce
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Loading your audio article An unhinged attacker slashed a man and a woman in back-to-back unprovoked knife attacks in Grand Central Station, police said Wednesday.Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 25 Dec. 2024
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Since then, she has only been seen on very rare occasions, the most important in the royal calendar—Trooping the Colour and Remembrance Day—but also the dearest to her heart—the Wimbledon final and an event to support the families of victims of an attack in Southport.La rédaction de Vanity Fair, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2024
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For a year or two along the way, Dan's wife, Marilyn, wore a cub costume and also cavorted on the sideline.Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
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Some 500 of them cavorted at Frank Buck’s Jungle Camp on a humanmade structure called Monkey Mountain.Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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England romped home against the Caribbean side and the Sri Lankans this summer at home.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Max Verstappen has romped to four consecutive drivers’ titles, his latest confirmed with a fifth-place finish at last week’s race in Las Vegas, while the Dutchman’s Red Bull team has captured the previous two constructors’ titles.Aleks Klosok, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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In 2024 alone, Brons frolicked with cows in Italy’s Dolomites Mountains in July, watched the sunset off Spain’s Canary Islands in March and strolled the streets of N.Y.C. in April.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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So Meyer’s just going to tease us about a mermaid adventure Edward had one time, spending days underwater probably frolicking with dolphins and discovering Atlantis, without going further into it?Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
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The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.Joan Oleck, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Those endless summer days spent watching Messi gambol around the football pitches of our souls?Jack Lang, The Athletic, 14 July 2024
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“Pounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pounce. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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