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Recent Examples of lunge
Steve Karnowski, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Distance-Increasing Signals: Behaviors such as lip licking, turning away, or stiffening, escalating to growling or lunging if ignored.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Or switch things up and do squats or lunges for one of your high-intensity intervals.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 25 July 2025
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Noun
The senator then lunged at the gunman and was shot nine times.
—Steve Karnowski, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Distance-Increasing Signals: Behaviors such as lip licking, turning away, or stiffening, escalating to growling or lunging if ignored.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Verb
Three points later, Fils put Munar’s desperate lunge for a drop shot that had rolled off a net cord into the open court.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Or switch things up and do squats or lunges for one of your high-intensity intervals.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunge
Noun
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The network cited costs, but the decision sparked many to wonder if the Paramount-Skydance merger and Colbert’s constant jabs at Trump were the real reason for his axing.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
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Martha Stewart took a slight jab at Meghan Markle's lifestyle brand, As Ever.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
31 July 2025
Verb
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For those that still don’t feel quite ready to dive into a dinner, or may not live in an area with such an abundance of Shabbat clubs to join, there are still plenty of other ways to get a taste of the culture and religion.—
Sophie Liza Cannon,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Additional motorsport-style heave dampers act to suppress squat and dive, giving the bespoke Pirelli Trofeo R tires a fighting chance of relaying 1,257 ft lbs of torque to the road.—
Tim Pitt,
Robb Report,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Hollywood loves a polarizing star with a merciless marketing punch that sells.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Nami’s version is topped with spicy slaw and tonkatsu sauce, often compared to Worcestershire with an extra sweet and tangy punch of flavor.—
Amanda Hancock,
The Courier-Journal,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Filmed on 16mm Kodak Ektachrome across a non-stop 45 day shoot, Petersen expands her exploration of mysticism and disappearance in southernmost Argentina – plunging head-first into a father-daughter relationship upended in the sleepy mountains of Tierra del Fuego.—
Jason Liwag,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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The eviction notice has plunged his future into uncertainty.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Lunge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunge. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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