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Recent Examples of mouse
Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
The researchers also conducted mouse experiments, where mice inhaled the pesticide as humans would for 11 weeks.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Matt Kamen, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Noun
What follows is a relentless cat-and-mouse battle across borders and hidden networks, driven by lies, betrayal and shifting loyalties.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
The researchers also conducted mouse experiments, where mice inhaled the pesticide as humans would for 11 weeks.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
Such original approaches to mouse controls could be Nintendo's secret weapon on the Switch 2, and developers are already coming up with more inventive uses for the tech than simply bringing a cursor to console gaming.
—Matt Kamen, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
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Time constraints once again strike here, but there’s also the fact that the movie drops the plot’s true twist — that Grace is a coward — only a few minutes before.—
Matthew Razak,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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John Cornyn is a coward who has refused to support abolishing the filibuster to pass this bill.—
Jack Fink,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The icicles that the Barton Family shared with us are much different.—
Ray Petelin,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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People were seen wearing lighted icicle tiaras or fiery orange costume wigs.—
Karie Angell Luc,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In the months after the meeting in Europe, Chalker arranged to sneak Bernadine’s wife and several close family members out of Iran.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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But no need to sneak snacks in with you.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Littleleaf boxwood surrounds one planting area filled with iceberg roses.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Mar. 2026
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Viewers are seeing only the tip of this iceberg.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
17 Mar. 2026
Verb
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But her lover, the increasingly controlling and unhinged army corporal Don José, is gradually dimished to lurking in the shadows and hiding in crowds.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
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What’s playing on that magical cranial monitor, however, is one half of the shadow self that lurks behind all of Yes‘ provocations.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Henry is a megalomaniac and a complete wuss.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.—
Alex Mar,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2023
Verb
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Brendan McMorrow, who slid in a rebound to make it 4-1?—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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Two travelers were injured when tons of rock slid onto a winding road inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, according to the National Park Service.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This year’s ceremony was not perfect, of course — there were some sound-production issues, there were some presenters with milquetoast bits (as always), and a few winners were played off the stage with cruelly abrupt music cues.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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The upstart Slovaks, by far the story of this otherwise milquetoast tournament, will face either the United States or the winner of Wednesday’s Switzerland-Finland game in the semifinals on Friday, and are guaranteed to play in a medal game.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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