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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Recent raids have sent terror coursing through Dominican neighborhoods.
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Adrian Florido, NPR, 2 June 2025
Konkle is a gifted comic performer and really underlines the panicked urgency coursing through Murderbot’s mystery.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 16 May 2025
In the present-day timeline, what the heck does that look like inside a scared 17-year-old who is not trying to survive in the wilderness and who has not been through that, but who maybe has an energy coursing through her, like the energy of that survival instinct of that experience?
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
That threw the kennel gates open for the predictable flood of the finest coursing hounds in the British press last night.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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Adrian Florido, NPR, 2 June 2025
Konkle is a gifted comic performer and really underlines the panicked urgency coursing through Murderbot’s mystery.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 16 May 2025
In the present-day timeline, what the heck does that look like inside a scared 17-year-old who is not trying to survive in the wilderness and who has not been through that, but who maybe has an energy coursing through her, like the energy of that survival instinct of that experience?
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
That threw the kennel gates open for the predictable flood of the finest coursing hounds in the British press last night.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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“Coursing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coursing. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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