as in pace
the rate at which activities are pursued
the slow gait of summer days
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Recent Examples of gait
Nineteen years ago, Mike Tomlin strode to a microphone in Pittsburgh, debuting his iconic, confident gait.
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Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Though the cottontail’s feet are completely covered with fur, the four toes visible on each foot and the bounding pattern of their gait are easily recognizable.
—Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
The system offers both active and passive gait training modes.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Inside the Wind Tunnel Using a compact two-by-two-meter wind tunnel to evaluate various shoe shapes, the team fixed each shoe at the 50-degree and 25-degree angles of a runner’s gait.
—Cory Smith, Outside, 8 Jan. 2026
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Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Though the cottontail’s feet are completely covered with fur, the four toes visible on each foot and the bounding pattern of their gait are easily recognizable.
—Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
The system offers both active and passive gait training modes.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Inside the Wind Tunnel Using a compact two-by-two-meter wind tunnel to evaluate various shoe shapes, the team fixed each shoe at the 50-degree and 25-degree angles of a runner’s gait.
—Cory Smith, Outside, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gait
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Ludo Lefebvre echoed the urgency, pointing to the painfully deliberate pace of the recovery.—
Michelle Edgar,
Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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The pace of innovation was overwhelming, but the most important takeaway was not any single product or platform.—
Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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In a field experiment with hundreds of consultants, GPT-4 improved speed and quality on some knowledge tasks while performance dropped on other, seemingly similar tasks just outside its strengths.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
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Tapascott said speed alone no longer excites drivers.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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When the tempo calms down for genuine soul-searching and truth-telling, the results may not be dramatically scintillating but there is a blunt and convincing force that registers between these two big beefy half-bros who aren’t used to expressing their feelings.—
Richard Kuipers,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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Jayla Green and Ahnna Breiner managed eight points each as Cedar Park survived a 38-34 slow-tempo District 25-5A win over Lehman to stay a game back of first place as district play winds toward the end.—
Butch Hart,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Gait.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gait. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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