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Recent Examples of lunges
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
That frees you up to add a little wobble to your lunges, sumo squats, or wide-grip push-ups.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 25 Aug. 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
In contrast, Drollette's team developed a set of movements that could be done in place without equipment—air squats, high knees, jumping jacks and lunges.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
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
That frees you up to add a little wobble to your lunges, sumo squats, or wide-grip push-ups.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 25 Aug. 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
In contrast, Drollette's team developed a set of movements that could be done in place without equipment—air squats, high knees, jumping jacks and lunges.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunges
Noun
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Boomer Esiason's former radio co-host Craig Carton used to routinely take jabs at Waldman, and this week the former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback appeared to renew the rivalry.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The rapper and businessman has been taking jabs at Combs — whom he's been feuding with since the mid-2000s — since Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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
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Continue reading … DIGITAL DARKNESS – Taliban plunges Afghanistan into darkness as UN issues urgent warning.—
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FOXNews.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Lego Batman can effortlessly glide from foe to foe, linking punches and kicks from one bad guy to the next.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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The humanoid also nails a couple of spins and launches a few punches.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Spike Lee’s School Daze dives deep into life at a historically Black college during Homecoming week, where fraternity and sorority members clash over politics, privilege, and identity.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
16 Oct. 2025
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Developed by Achkar, the show dives headfirst into the hilarity and heartbreak of modern Arab life.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Lunges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunges. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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