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as in outs
to drive or force out
chased the cat out of the garden
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as in pursues
to go after or on the track of
a dog that likes to chase cars
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as in rushes
to proceed or move quickly
they chased all over the place to find the missing child
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Recent Examples of chases
Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
In the Ring video, a person dressed in black pants and a gray T-shirt, with a gray sweatshirt draped over his shoulder, chases two dogs down a residential street, spraying them with pellets from what looks like a gel gun.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
Or do coaches even matter and everyone just chases the bag?
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026
Both trials — one in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the other in Los Angeles — pointed to the struggles Meta has faced to adequately police Facebook and Instagram, which remain the primary cash engines as the company chases Google, OpenAI and Anthropic in artificial intelligence.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
Catcher Clayton Namken chases a high fastball, striking out swinging.
—Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
Prying the 26-year-old striker away from Chelsea as the club chases a Women’s Super League title wasn’t cheap.
—Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 16 Mar. 2026
In the film, when mobster Marsellus Wallace sees Bruce Willis’ boxer character Butch crossing the street — after Butch defied Wallace’s orders to throw a match — Wallace chases Butch into a pawnshop.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026
The human cost is painfully clear; our parents and grandparents cycle in and out of hospitals, receiving reactive medicine that chases one condition after another rather than addressing the underlying cause.
—Andrew S. Brack, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
This fourth season was the series’ most ambitious, both in its set pieces (shoot-outs, car chases) and in its interrogation of what its characters value and love, and if Dark Winds can keep mixing up the flavor of Leaphorn and Chee’s foes, its forecast looks good.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
Reuters Google’s embrace of defense work shows how far employee activism has weakened as the company clamps down on internal dissent and chases AI-era government contracts.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Rosalía chases that friction across Lux.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2026
Both movies are typically kinetic Scott spectacles, non-stop chases that showcase the filmmaker’s gifts for visceral action.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Some testified that agents continued on high-speed chases when told not to.
—Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Three Georgia State Patrol troopers and their supervisor were fired from the department after an investigation revealed a scheme where officers used insurance claims to profit off of vehicle chases, an internal report concluded.
—Asia Simone Burns, AJC.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Hummingbirds are surprisingly fast and also territorial, often engaging in high-speed chases around the garden.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
Video of the incident shows the boy trying to scramble up the bank to safety as the beaver chases him before biting him on the thigh.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
In the Ring video, a person dressed in black pants and a gray T-shirt, with a gray sweatshirt draped over his shoulder, chases two dogs down a residential street, spraying them with pellets from what looks like a gel gun.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
Or do coaches even matter and everyone just chases the bag?
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026
Both trials — one in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the other in Los Angeles — pointed to the struggles Meta has faced to adequately police Facebook and Instagram, which remain the primary cash engines as the company chases Google, OpenAI and Anthropic in artificial intelligence.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
Catcher Clayton Namken chases a high fastball, striking out swinging.
—Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
Prying the 26-year-old striker away from Chelsea as the club chases a Women’s Super League title wasn’t cheap.
—Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 16 Mar. 2026
In the film, when mobster Marsellus Wallace sees Bruce Willis’ boxer character Butch crossing the street — after Butch defied Wallace’s orders to throw a match — Wallace chases Butch into a pawnshop.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026
The human cost is painfully clear; our parents and grandparents cycle in and out of hospitals, receiving reactive medicine that chases one condition after another rather than addressing the underlying cause.
—Andrew S. Brack, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
Those chases included a showdown with more than a dozen bikers, a 100-mph pursuit in Palm Desert and a chase that ended in gunfire in Joshua Tree.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
This fourth season was the series’ most ambitious, both in its set pieces (shoot-outs, car chases) and in its interrogation of what its characters value and love, and if Dark Winds can keep mixing up the flavor of Leaphorn and Chee’s foes, its forecast looks good.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
Reuters Google’s embrace of defense work shows how far employee activism has weakened as the company clamps down on internal dissent and chases AI-era government contracts.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Rosalía chases that friction across Lux.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2026
Both movies are typically kinetic Scott spectacles, non-stop chases that showcase the filmmaker’s gifts for visceral action.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Some testified that agents continued on high-speed chases when told not to.
—Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Three Georgia State Patrol troopers and their supervisor were fired from the department after an investigation revealed a scheme where officers used insurance claims to profit off of vehicle chases, an internal report concluded.
—Asia Simone Burns, AJC.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Hummingbirds are surprisingly fast and also territorial, often engaging in high-speed chases around the garden.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chases
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Ezekiel Richardson outs himself as a spy for the Continental Army to Claire.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Luckily, the king’s favorite wife, Esther, outs herself as Jewish.—
Betsy Andrews,
Saveur,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In corporate news, shares of eBay soared as Ryan Cohen’s GameStop pursues an approximately $56 billion takeover of company, seeing it as a vehicle to compete with online retail giant Amazon.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 May 2026
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Chang becomes the fourth Southern California volleyball player accepted to MIT and joins three others from Redondo Union as Chatsworth pursues another playoff championship.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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Indeed, the picturesque peninsula of Istria, located in northern Croatia, is the perfect blend of coast and countryside, where truffle hunts through the hills of Buzet and boat excursions along the Brijuni Islands are not to be missed.—
Jessica Sulima,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
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The move comes as the industry hunts for training data to use in the workplace itself.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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David then rushes forward and punches Niemi in the back of the head at least twice, according to the video.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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The Flyers just don’t give up odd-man rushes.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The marble that makes up the bathrooms comes from nearby quarries; some have marble from a nearby quarry, and others have the same reddish marble used at Le Petit Trianon at Versailles.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Feb. 2026
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Results published in Nature show that cells use bioelectricity to coordinate a complex collective behavior called extrusion, a vital process that ejects sick or struggling individual cells from tissue to maintain health and keep growth in check.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Investors burned by that bust are still leery of pouring money into oil and gas a decade later, says Brandon Davis, founder of AFE Leaks, a consulting firm that tracks capital costs for oil and gas.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
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Comptroller Phil Diamond — whose office tracks collection and spending of Orange County’s tourist tax, widely seen as a barometer of the health of the regional tourism market — indicated Tuesday that receipts would continue the surge that began last April.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2026
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The way Radcliffe scurries out of his chair and into the green room to meet Liu illustrates her visceral impact.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Bridgerton fans can spot the Old Royal Naval College mostly throughout season 2, like when a paperboy scurries across the grounds to deliver the latest gossip from Lady Whistledown in the first episode.—
Kayla Keegan,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Chases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chases. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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