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verb

ˈstrīd How to pronounce stride (audio)
Definition of stridenext
as in to march
to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group a gang of armed men strode into the bank and approached the teller

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stride

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noun

as in leap

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Recent Examples of stride
Verb
As Shohei Ohtani strode up to the plate Monday, Michael Bublé’s voice crooned over the Dodger Stadium speakers as always. — Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Devers strode to the plate in the top of the 10th having already homered in three straight games. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
Calvin Harris switched the point of attack and fed Luiz right into stride, and Luiz curled one into the far corner from outside the penalty area. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2026 The offense gets rolling as Washington’s defense continues to find its new stride under a new coordinator. — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stride
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stride
  1. march
  2. leap
  3. step
  4. jump
  5. approach
  6. coming
  7. bound
  8. arrival
Verb
  • Bidh admitted as much, begrudgingly saying the STC would coordinate with local authorities to defend their land if the Houthis marched south, though maintaining it wouldn’t directly coordinate with the PLC itself.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Braving 100-degree heat, protesters marched through Culver City demanding local media corporations do their part to defend democracy.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of march
Noun
  • Returning to those stocks is a real leap of faith, but Best Buy has been moving up nicely.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The biggest leap belongs to Missouri after the Tigers throttled Florida, 45-17, just a week after the Gators looked like worldbeaters in their dominant win over Ole Miss.
    — Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of leap
Noun
  • Modern use of accelerators in physics The developments Cockcroft and Walton made marked the first step toward widespread use of particle accelerators, which continues today.
    — Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Staff skipped the sanitizing step when washing cutting boards at the meat prep table.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of step
Noun
  • Brener’s jump to the new Skydance comes in the wake of DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran also making the transition.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In addition, 5,013 weapons were seized — a 120% jump compared to last year's operation — more than 1,400 children were identified or located, a 34% jump, and authorities conducted 687 fentanyl seizures, up 63%, the FBI said.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of jump
Noun
  • The stone leans toward or away from the steel; the steel approaches or withdraws from the stone.
    — Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Raffles Bali also takes a responsible approach to waste management, using compost fertilizer made from kitchen and landscape waste and repurposing calcium carbonate-rich eggshells from the restaurants for organic fertilizer in the herb garden.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of approach
Noun
  • Even though people have been waiting for the robot takeover for more than a century, governments seem woefully unprepared for the coming of the androids by the millions or by the billions.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Here, touchstone coming-of-age experiences get an absurdist touch that manages to give them their own strange authenticity.
    — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of coming
Noun
  • That is, until the referees wiped it off the board because Bell’s toe had stepped out-of-bounds prior to the catch.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
  • In his affidavit, Thomson said the nearby suburbs were out of bounds.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of bound
Noun
  • Their arrival brings the number of satellites developed for GHGSat to 13.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Shannon is unbothered by the arrival of Alexis and John — well, as unbothered as Shannon Storms Beador can be — but Heather has real unfinished business with Alexis.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of arrival

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