1
: the pursuit of running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent
2
: the act of one that courses
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Speaking of erotic, few films have intrepid horniness coursing through their veins like Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake.
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
That sent runoff coursing into streams and rivers and overwhelming levees in some areas, Heitkamp said.
—Scott Dance, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
The shades were concealing the very real panic coursing through Gosling.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
Oshima’s film teases out the homoeroticism coursing beneath the environment (and coursing through many a war movie, for that matter), in the process commenting on two different cultures that express such feelings through denial and brutality.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
That sent runoff coursing into streams and rivers and overwhelming levees in some areas, Heitkamp said.
—Scott Dance, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
The shades were concealing the very real panic coursing through Gosling.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
Oshima’s film teases out the homoeroticism coursing beneath the environment (and coursing through many a war movie, for that matter), in the process commenting on two different cultures that express such feelings through denial and brutality.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
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“Coursing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coursing. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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