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Recent Examples of hie Then hie ye to the brewery/concert hall, 9990 AleSmith Court, San Diego, for the 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. performance. Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024 Such shows—in major museums in major cities—are perfect for the summer, when much of the art world has hied off to beaches and country houses, but when regular-folk tourists arrive in droves. Peter Plagens, WSJ, 8 June 2019 YESTERDAY’S WORD — HOMICIDE hemic hide hied hoed home medic mice midi mode iced idiom iodic chide chime code coed come demo dice dime dome echo To purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Kathleen Saxe, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hie
Verb
  • Sogard sliced a base hit to center and took advantage of Judge’s arm, speeding to second on what should have been a single.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With more than 100 products, each with domain specific-functionality, Hron sees many more opportunities to plug in agentic AI to speed up work for legal and tax professionals.
    John Kell, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the pair of drivers raced hard, even making contact on the last lap, the incident allowed Elliott to overtake them in no time.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Body camera footage from the incident, shared by police, showed Fayles racing over to the vehicle and using a long rod to break the car’s window.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ross passed the day's examination with flying colors, barely flinching at the rubber chicken.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Swift recorded the album during her behemoth Eras Tour, flying in and out of Sweden between stops to lay down tracks.
    Liz Schubauer, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bradley then trotted up the center of the fairway, waving it to a cheering crowd.
    Hugh Kellenberger, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There is no reason to continue trotting him out onto the field if the team isn't going to win or compete at a high level.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Normally, the hours and days before the prospect of a shutdown on Capitol Hill are filled with scenes of lawmakers and aides scurrying about to negotiate possible settlements.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
  • After scurrying through passengers, the scared kitten ended up in the arms of New York native Betsaida Mercado, who picked up the feline and took her home.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • White has the Bucs' only rushing touchdown this season.
    Josh Buckhalter, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Normally, that kind of rushed means my base slips within a couple of hours—but Magic Hour came through again.
    Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The idea was to hurry the process and get a cup of coffee into the consumer's hands as quickly as possible.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Guests of the event, dressed up in cocktail attire, admitted to feeling sheepish, reminded so powerfully about the current context, and hurried their way inside the storied building more quickly than in previous editions.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Like hundreds of thousands of foreign professionals, Qian lived on an H-1B work visa — the document that tethered her job, her ability to travel, and her entire sense of security to the grace of her employer.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For his third album, Tomlinson once again teamed up with producer Nico Rebscher (Aurora, Zoe Wees), and traveled to Santa Teresa in Costa Rica for inspiration in early 2025.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Hie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hie. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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