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Noun
Jones allegedly lunged at the victim with a boxcutter, cutting him on the side of his face, cops said.—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025 At the beach, the routine starts with a practice known as lunging, in which the horse travels in a circle around the groom’s rein handle in the shallows.—Ana Sotelo, The Dial, 8 July 2025
Verb
The right wing is going to parse the video looking for that lunge and saying Padilla was aggressive.—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025 Wounding a character in such a blunt way could, in the hand of a middling fiction writer, feel like a cheap lunge at profundity.—Simon Parkin, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for lunge
The Israeli military campaign against Hamas in Gaza has since killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, according to health officials, displaced almost the entire population and plunged the enclave into a humanitarian crisis.
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Nidal al-Mughrabi,
USA Today,
21 July 2025
Khloé Kardashian is spotted wearing a brown outfit with a plunging neckline and a chunky silver necklace while enjoying dinner in Malibu with Kris Jenner (not pictured).
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