1
as in striding
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 progressing
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 marching
The house is falling apart, bats in the fireplace, ants marching unfazed across the floor, smells of dead creatures decaying in the walls.
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John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
In Bentonville, there are no protesters marching with signs.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
The gates give Caltrans the ability to block protesters from marching onto the freeway.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
That incident occurred in the final second of the March 7 game due to marching up to the back of referee John Gaffney from the sidelines and screaming at the back of his head.
—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Oh, and the 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields are marching higher — with some, if not all, those gains related to concerns that disruptions to the impossibly complex supply chain beginning in the Gulf will rekindle inflation.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
The size of the protest appeared to measure well into the thousands by about the time people were marching from West Sacramento.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police did use pepper spray on a smaller group of people marching after the official end of the first rally in June and make two arrests.
—Mary Ramsey
march 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2026
Demonstrators rally before marching across the Memorial Bridge during the No Kings protest in Washington, Saturday, March 28, 2026.
—CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
In Bentonville, there are no protesters marching with signs.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
The gates give Caltrans the ability to block protesters from marching onto the freeway.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
That incident occurred in the final second of the March 7 game due to marching up to the back of referee John Gaffney from the sidelines and screaming at the back of his head.
—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Oh, and the 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields are marching higher — with some, if not all, those gains related to concerns that disruptions to the impossibly complex supply chain beginning in the Gulf will rekindle inflation.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
The size of the protest appeared to measure well into the thousands by about the time people were marching from West Sacramento.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police did use pepper spray on a smaller group of people marching after the official end of the first rally in June and make two arrests.
—Mary Ramsey
march 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2026
Demonstrators rally before marching across the Memorial Bridge during the No Kings protest in Washington, Saturday, March 28, 2026.
—CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marching
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Nude, striding statues of young men called kouroi were used both as offerings to the gods and as grave markers.—
Anna Swartwood House,
The Conversation,
2 Mar. 2026
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Mercury is striding into your public 10th house, boosting your visibility and encouraging you to offer updates that show your strengths without oversharing.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Time is ticking, and work is progressing to make sure the footprint of the draft is good to go, because the city is expected to host hundreds of thousands of people.—
Jessica Riley,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Smith told reporters at practice Wednesday that Kuzmenko was progressing in his rehab and would be reevaluated near the end of the regular season.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Pretty soon people realized that some women had actually always been out there doing things.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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Add into the mix consistent hand-washing, doing the dishes with harsh soaps, and something as mundane as getting gel nail polish cured with a UV light?—
Reece Andavolgyi,
InStyle,
4 Apr. 2026
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California appears to be proceeding with caution.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Tuesday’s filing indicated the talks went nowhere and that the case is proceeding to trial full speed ahead.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Big banks kick off the coming earnings season next week, with Goldman Sachs , Citigroup , Wells Fargo , JPMorgan Chase , Morgan Stanley and Bank of America all reporting.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
10 Apr. 2026
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Keep the savings coming with more tech deals on Walmart today.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
10 Apr. 2026
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O’Leary continued that surge Saturday, going 4-for-4 with four singles, a walk and two runs as the Porters mounted a big rally before losing 8-7 to Joliet West in nine innings in the WJOL Tournament championship game at Slammers Stadium in Joliet.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026
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Šilovs also allowed a goal in the first period that clanged off his mask before somehow going between his legs.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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Hager, who worked at three ARC centers during the span of nearly a decade, said those kinds of groups that ARC billed for were the standard and forging group notes was common.—
Alex Acquisto,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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Corona had worked for the elderly couple — identified in court Tuesday as investment banker Richard Schmeelk and his wife Priscilla — since the early 2000s, and was forging their signatures on checks to pay off her credit cards since 2015, according to the feds.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Biff shouts at him at the show’s excruciating climax) sways between light and dark, between the road and the deadly shoulder, advancing through his last hours on earth as if through the stations of the cross.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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Now the Democratic National Committee is advancing a resolution at its New Orleans spring meeting to condemn the surge of spending that has scrambled its primaries and exacerbated tensions within the party.—
Leah Askarinam,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Marching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marching. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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