hares

verb

present tense third-person singular of hare
as in races
to proceed or move quickly she's always haring off to attend to some emergency

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hares
  1. races
  2. flies
  3. speeds
  4. rushes
  5. scurries
  6. chases
  7. trots
  8. travels
Verb
  • Now almost synonymous, Singer races multiple cars up the hillclimb each year at Goodwood, while showing new models on a stand nearby.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In the 2025 novel, symbologist Robert Langdon races against ancient forces and time to rescue a missing scientist and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 31 July 2026
Definition of races
Verb
  • Meanwhile, a team quietly burning tokens on work that moves nothing flies under the radar.
    — Vinay Kuruvila, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • About 200 of those flights are handled by Mercy Air, a for-profit service that flies patients and bills their insurers for the costs.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of flies
Verb
  • The control system also needs to respond automatically when a person speeds up or slows down.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
  • Also, take care to keep potatoes away from onions, as onions release ethylene gas, which speeds up the sprouting process.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 19 July 2026
Definition of speeds
Verb
  • But as Saint Laurent begins to make his unsteady way out of the banquet hall, Bergé rushes to his side, to help him.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Thousands will spend another night in the dark as ComEd rushes to restore power.
    — Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 29 July 2026
Definition of rushes
Verb
  • Meanwhile, in King’s Landing, Alicent scurries the great halls, desperate to shore up support for her plan to hand Rhaenyra the Red Keep.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • That goes for much here, from the light that scurries away from Benjamín Echazarreta’s muted camera, to the moments of sweetness that punctuate Mariá Portugal’s largely ominous score.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 14 May 2026
Definition of scurries
Verb
  • With Blair determined to stop him, while Leighton relentlessly chases his grand vision of creating a perfect world.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • All that guessing will create herding and noise trading as the crowd chases the crowd like a dog chases its tail, in a futile attempt to get ahead of the next unpredictable change in what humors the Big Player.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of chases
Verb
  • After Nessa's crushing death, Glinda (Ariana Grande) hands off her jeweled footwear to Dorothy (Bethany Weaver), who trots down the Yellow Brick Road to meet the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) in the Emerald City.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
Definition of trots
Verb
  • Those skills are put to similar use in Tony, in which Bourdain travels to Provincetown on a whim in hopes of impressing a girl (Emilia Jones) by lying about receiving a fellowship to write a novel.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The film follows Souleymane Everston Adowo Freudenreich, an Afro-German trans man who travels to Dakar, Senegal, to repair his father’s kora.
    — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of travels
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