stutter-stepping

verb

Definition of stutter-steppingnext
present participle of stutter-step
as in pump-faking

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stutter-stepping
  1. evading
  2. sidestepping
  3. dodging
  4. slipping
Verb
  • Rich had fled to Switzerland in 1983 after he was indicted on more than 50 counts of fraud and evading more than $48 million in taxes.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Rosado was arrested and charged with engaging police in pursuit, evading responsibility, failure to obey stop sign, reckless driving, unreadable license plates, interfering with an officer, possession with intent to sell narcotics and operating a drug factory.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of evading
Verb
  • This enables organizations to centralize control while sidestepping many of the risks associated with DIY pipelines.
    Taylor Brown, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • There’s no sidestepping this directive.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of sidestepping
Verb
  • Players explored the dungeon and pieced together the story at their own pace while dodging lethal traps and encounters.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Then, on January 17, Jamie Foxx stars in Back in Action, an explosive Netflix original about spies navigating family life while dodging danger.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of dodging
Verb
  • Harrison took Georgia’s second-half kickoff all the way to the end zone, slipping a tackle near the middle of the field, cutting toward the right sideline and outrunning everyone.
    Brett Martel, The Denver Post, 2 Jan. 2025
  • By 1980, amid double-digit inflation, spiraling gas prices, and Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution in Iran, the United States was slipping into another recession.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of slipping
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