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march 1 of 3

noun (1)

ˈmärch How to pronounce march (audio)
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as in border
a region along the dividing line between two countries when it was first built, this castle protected what was then the country's northern march

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march

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noun (2)

ˈmärch How to pronounce march (audio)
as in procession
forward movement in time or place the march of time

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march

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verb

ˈmärch How to pronounce march (audio)
1
as in to stride
to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group the band had to practice for hours to be able to march in perfect step

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2
as in to progress
to move forward along a course bleary-eyed commuters marching off to the train station for the morning commute

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Recent Examples of march
Noun
Yet the Hoosiers’ march to the top was also thorough and conclusive. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 America isn’t there yet, but ALPR technology is leading the long march to this dystopia. — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
Hrgovic saw his opportunity, and pounced at the start of the ninth round, marching forward and unleashing heavy shots. — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Bass pointed to the fire department’s new fire chief and said the city would march into the state’s land holding to clear hazardous brush if the state does not do its part. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for march
Recent Examples of Synonyms for march
  1. border
  2. procession
  3. stride
  4. progress
  5. frontier
  6. advance
  7. parade
  8. proceed
Noun
  • Asian food Lucknow is considered by many Indians as one of the country’s greatest culinary capitals, but beyond the South Asian nation’s borders, the city has remained largely absent from global conversations about food.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
  • On a community level, that could mean creating more open spaces between the waterfront and development, replacing the asphalt that borders places like Virginia Key with mangroves and walking paths.
    — Zoey Thomas, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of border
Noun
  • Critics have a long list of concerns with the project, ranging from the financial cost to the impact on nearby funeral processions to questions of vehicle, pedestrian and aviation safety.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Come morning, breakfast under the frescoes at Ristorante Vittoria is a heady procession of homemade cakes and marmalades.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of procession
Verb
  • Little things like starting to maybe stride a little bit more across his body, leading to a little bit lower arm slot, and impacting some of his pitches from an action and execution standpoint.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Fans of Waterbird Coffee were without their downtown Kansas City spot for just a few months before new owners strode in — single origin beans in hand — to save it.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of stride
Verb
  • But in comparison with that movie’s central character, Arash grows less single-minded as his daylong journey progresses.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Melatonin remained substantially lower during the blue-light condition, whereas participants exposed to red light experienced a stronger increase in melatonin as the evening progressed.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of progress
Noun
  • The company said the incidents show how harder-to-detect biological risks can emerge as frontier models become better at scientific research.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
  • So the honest accounting is that this is at least the fifth notable safety-motivated exit or mass statement from frontier labs since 2023.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of frontier
Noun
  • Researchers in the United States are shaping the nanoscience frontier, using atomic‑scale control to accelerate advances in electronics, energy storage, catalysis, sensing and medicine.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
  • But even with all our medical advances, the biggest factors that shape health are still social, and a family’s income remains one of the strongest and most lasting.
    — Mona Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of advance
Verb
  • There’s a bleak snowy field in Munich after the 1958 air disaster, a huge 1968 colour picture of a toothless Nobby Stiles parading the European Cup with his sidekick Paddy Crerand equally jubilant.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The move by the shop owner launched a flurry of online discourse about the tripod-wielding gaggle of usually young, almost always female influencers who parade their phones around in the hopes of building, or nurturing, a gainful following.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of parade
Verb
  • Drain in a colander and let cool for 10 minutes, or proceed as directed in your recipe.
    — Molly Baz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The whistleblower said that when officers raised concerns about liability for searching the tools against state guidance, agency leaders told them to proceed with the searches anyway.
    — Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of proceed

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