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Definition of mousenext

mouse

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verb

as in to sneak
to move about in a sly or secret manner a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden

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Recent Examples of mouse
Noun
The risk of seeing a rat or mouse on your next cruise is, too. Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026 That happens mainly when dried mouse urine, saliva or droppings are stirred up, the department said. Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 May 2026
Verb
Such original approaches to mouse controls could be Nintendo's secret weapon on the Switch 2, and developers are already coming up with more inventive uses for the tech than simply bringing a cursor to console gaming. Matt Kamen, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025 What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup. Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
  • Across 17 tracks, Amos positions herself as both conqueror and coward, exploring how the greed and individualism of modern society has allowed tech feudalists and 21st-century robber barons to make out like kings.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026
  • The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police president calling the mayor a coward doesn’t keep a single teenager off the street.
    Louis Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • On April 12, the Toronto Raptors transformed Drake’s usual courtside seats into a frozen display — complete with faux ice and icicles — in what appeared to be a not-so-subtle promotion for his upcoming album, Iceman.
    Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Some customers complain about large icicles and ice dams forming in the winter where there weren’t issues previously, which makes some homeowners question how well the system actually collects runoff.
    Dan Simms, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Other methods of sneaking contraband into a prison include throwing it over a facility’s fence, coordinating through the mail and, in some cases, involving corrupt corrections officers.
    Taylor Galgano, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
  • Much like his Game 1 game-winning goal, Mattias Samuelsson used a screen from the towering Thompson to sneak a long-range shot past Jeremy Swayman on the short side.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • Along beaches that had been stripped of their vegetation, icebergs sat incongruously high on rocks.
    Megan I. Gannon, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
  • Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.
    Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Saturn Saturn, lurking near the border of the constellations Cetus the Whale and Pisces the Fishes, sneaks up in the east around the start of morning twilight.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 May 2026
  • No one wants to be abrupt and just hang up, but there might also be some one-upmanship lurking below the surface.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • Henry is a megalomaniac and a complete wuss.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.
    Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • Workers mixed mortar and drove a scissor lift to the edge of a concrete plinth surmounted by four steel rods—supports for the Buddha, whose sandstone body would slide down them in four parts, like beads in an abacus.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Cleanup-hitting Ryan Vilade went down on a knee to push a bunt toward first, scoring a sliding and jubilant Camineo ahead of the throw.
    Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • And Benjamin Cole is a likable milquetoast as Sarah’s original boyfriend, Chris.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • By all accounts, being a milquetoast is a sort of vice—cowardice masquerading as prudence.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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