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Recent Examples of lunges
Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
That said, many plyometric exercises—like jumping lunges, pop squats, and tuck jumps—place an extra emphasis on your core and lower half.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 24 Oct. 2025
Continue reading … GAVELED OUT – Democrat lunges at chairman's gavel as immigration hearing descends into chaos.
—FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
The trainer noted that the aero version of this move is easier and more forgiving on the knees than traditional reverse lunges because the rope helps pull you up.
—PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Incorporating toning exercises every few minutes, like jumping jacks, walking lunges, squats, or squat jumps, can also help, suggested Kirsch.
—Kristin Canning, Health, 22 Sep. 2025
In front of the pizzeria where you are taken on your birthdays, your dad lunges.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Sometimes the guest is a celebrity; sometimes the guest is a normal person; sometimes, this being the New York subway, a stranger lunges into the shot, interrupting the interview, and Rahma rolls with it.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Lateral Lunges Lateral lunges effectively target both adductor and abductor muscles, improving leg strength and stability.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
Then Verna lunges, and Aneesha fires.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
That said, many plyometric exercises—like jumping lunges, pop squats, and tuck jumps—place an extra emphasis on your core and lower half.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 24 Oct. 2025
Continue reading … GAVELED OUT – Democrat lunges at chairman's gavel as immigration hearing descends into chaos.
—FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
The trainer noted that the aero version of this move is easier and more forgiving on the knees than traditional reverse lunges because the rope helps pull you up.
—PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Incorporating toning exercises every few minutes, like jumping jacks, walking lunges, squats, or squat jumps, can also help, suggested Kirsch.
—Kristin Canning, Health, 22 Sep. 2025
In front of the pizzeria where you are taken on your birthdays, your dad lunges.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Sometimes the guest is a celebrity; sometimes the guest is a normal person; sometimes, this being the New York subway, a stranger lunges into the shot, interrupting the interview, and Rahma rolls with it.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Lateral Lunges Lateral lunges effectively target both adductor and abductor muscles, improving leg strength and stability.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunges
Noun
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The jabs and insults of earlier Presidents, though, however rough, stayed within the bounds of democratic discourse, the basic rule being that the other side also gets to make its case.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Drake and Kendrick Lamar went at it last year in a series of vicious, scathing tracks that included taunts, jabs, and some serious allegations being thrown around.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Their investigation plunges them into the shadowy corners of New York and beyond — where the trio uncovers a dangerous web of secrets connecting powerful billionaires, old-school mobsters and the mysterious residents of the Arconia.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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While the filmmaker’s first nine movies were modestly budgeted — see Inherent Vice (2014) or Hard Eight (1996) — the $140 million One Battle, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, plunges Anderson into franchise-like economics.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The poem is littered with gut punches that would destroy me as a parent; Lee sees the poem’s beauty and appears to feel appropriate shame.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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No punches were thrown, and order was quickly restored, but the mere sight of a standoff is rare in any playoff game, much less Game 7 of the World Series.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Mercury in Scorpio doesn’t sugarcoat — the messenger planet dives deep beneath the surface of every conversation, searching for what is real, what is hidden and what needs to be revealed.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Stay tuned for our new episode of Planet Money that dives more into this story.—
NPR,
NPR,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Lunges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunges. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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