as in border
a region along the dividing line between two countries
when it was first built, this castle protected what was then the country's northern march
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as in procession
forward movement in time or place
the march of time
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1
as in to stride
to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group
the band had to practice for hours to be able to march in perfect step
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2
as in to progress
to move forward along a course
bleary-eyed commuters marching off to the train station for the morning commute
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Recent Examples of march
Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Yeah, that this march toward inevitable normalization between Arab states and Israel will not proceed and leave Palestinians by the wayside.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Amber Massa, 33, of Sterling Heights, marched in Detroit in an inflatable frog costume.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Worthington, now 80 years old, is from the old school; so much so that the march of data analysis pushed him out of his last club role.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Yeah, that this march toward inevitable normalization between Arab states and Israel will not proceed and leave Palestinians by the wayside.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
Some believe that the name originated with Slavic soldiers who once attempted to march over the trackless range into Albania.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Amber Massa, 33, of Sterling Heights, marched in Detroit in an inflatable frog costume.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for march
Verb
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Noone, recognizing him as White, strode over.—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Once the sun was above the Black Hills, the first wave of hikers, more than 1,000 people, strode past a welcome banner.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Indeed, this cooling might temporarily offset the progressing climate change — but a new study claims this type of intervention is likely to have several more unwanted side effects than previously thought.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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This will be a major storyline to keep an eye on as the season progresses.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The screen then moved to show live pictures from Gaza, where Hamas fighters held a much more muted ceremony than previous ones where the hostages were paraded around, drawing rebuke from Israel.—
Yamiche Alcindor,
NBC news,
14 Oct. 2025
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Chiuri is said to be on friendly terms with Venturini Fendi, who attended Chiuri’s swan song show in May parading Dior’s cruise 2026 collection.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Starting in the 1880s, the city and county each built a series of increasingly spacious jails—and then proceeded to fill them well above capacity each winter.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
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Trump then proceeded to bully both Hamas and Netanyahu into accepting this agreement.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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No, that one was an antitrust suit filed by Biden’s Department of Justice.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2025
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Last year, Porsche’s filed patent for a six-stroke engine, hinting at a shift from traditional four-stroke designs, signaling a potential major evolution in combustion engine technology.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The rapper also expressed frustration towards those who criticized her appearance at a rally Kamala Harris hosted in Milwaukee ahead of the 2024 election, stating that the wrong parts of her speech went viral.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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These can require more unraveling, and the further back one goes, the more conjecture there is.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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One issue is that hypnosis has long been viewed as a form of entertainment, a stage show with a hypnotist and an audience, which can give viewers a sense that hypnosis is something done to you rather than a process that a person is led through.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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There are a lot of very respectable academics that have done a lot of really amazing work in Black Studies and Africana Studies.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The protests come amid a federal government shutdown now in its 18th day, broader immigration enforcement operations, and the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and Los Angeles.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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Regulators say more crashes may come Tesla's latest FSD software update arrived just days before the investigation began.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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“March.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/march. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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