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Recent Examples of jounce
Noun
Additional front and rear jounce dampers help absorb the load after landing sweet jumps, while new braces on the trailer hitch help increase the tow rating to 4500 pounds. Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2022 For the first time, the Corvette has such stiff spring rates that helper springs are needed to maintain proper check load when the car is at full jounce. Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021 The affected vehicles have a front brake jounce hose that can rupture and lead to brake fluid leaking, ultimately possibly causing longer brake-pedal travel and increasing the risk of a crash. Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2020 Going a step further, secondary Fox hydraulic jounce dampers—heavy-duty, short-stroke shock absorbers common on off-road racing vehicles—take the place of the front bump stops to help prevent the suspension from bottoming out. Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 17 Apr. 2020 Joe DeAngelo was thick-muscled and dough-faced, with an odd jounce to his gait. Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019 Its suspension is soft and tuned for compliance such that the Atlas absorbed the jolts and jounces of our rutted camp driveway better than any other. Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 13 July 2017
Verb
Tailbone pain sometimes can arise after sitting on a hard surface for a long time, or sitting on an ill-fitting or jouncing seat. Mayo Clinic, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019 But as the bus jounced along and the woman in the suit sat primly with her satchel in her lap, Magdalena changed her mind. Stephanie Green, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019 The frame shape and temple design must harmonize with your helmet lest the glasses jounce around or, worse, rub your skull wrong. Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 13 June 2018 This band has a rare instrumentation — tenor saxophone, tuba, two drummers — and a relentless, jouncing sound anchored in rhythms of the Caribbean. Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018 On the album’s title tune, the bass line jounces from major to minor and then back again, as Mr. Mergia skates above it on organ and synthesizer and Fender Rhodes. Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018 Early mornings and midafternoons at Ranthambore see a restricted number of open-air vehicles shuttling tourists into the park to jounce along five dusty trail routes, each stretching a few miles. Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 11 May 2017 The second EMT’s eyebrows were jouncing around unreadably. Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017 That rickety bus bounced and jounced along dirt roads and pulled into an Arizona elementary school. Michael Powell, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jounce
Noun
  • The Manhattan Beach Police Department said in a press release that officers responded to a report of a traffic collision between a car and pedestrian on Sepulveda Boulevard in the early morning hours of May 4.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 May 2025
  • This was a post-optimistic world where new exciting collisions in biology had blossomed.
    A.D. Amorosi, Variety, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10 contestant Phoenix's drama with Ice Spice must've stirred too much after the season 3 queen clapped back against the guest judge's Main Stage critiques about her icon status, but the Drag Race OG hopes the rapper isn't too shaken in the aftermath.
    Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 17 May 2025
  • Clips of the pair shaking hands alongside the disco beat are making the rounds on social media.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • The team calculated just how quickly the flamingos chattered their beaks and bobbed their heads.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • The poem’s individual words and syllables bob like a string of harbor buoys.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Now, the Red Sox seem to be turning toward Campbell as an option at first base, a move that would open the door for top infield prospect Marcelo Mayer to play second base and perhaps spark a lineup desperately in need of a jolt.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • The particular intersection of communities depicted here (LGBTQ and Muslim), as well as a handful of Sapphic scenes for the ages, gives the drama an undeniable jolt of freshness.
    Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • Earthquakes cause the ground to move in unpredictable ways, sometimes sharply jerking, other times swaying like a ship in rough seas.
    Maya Wei-Haas, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Confused Lochlan, who thoughtfully jerked off his older brother so that Saxon wouldn’t feel left out.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Given how well the American Manhunt series continues to perform — and the fact that each installment runs about three episodes — the platform will absolutely keep pumping them out.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • The small crew pumped their fists after the rankings were announced.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • My heart thumps, in sync with the pitter-patter of feet on the ground.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Outlook Single Double Triple Homer Texas moved quickly to bring in Pederson after trading Nathaniel Lowe, sacrificing a lot of fielding value but maintaining similar left-handed thump for the lineup.
    Tim Britton, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • One shudders to think how Ross, whom Grant divorced in 1929, and who died in 1951, would have reacted to so echoing a lack.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • The sound seemed to shudder like a pot about to blow its lid.
    Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 1 May 2025

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“Jounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jounce. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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