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Recent Examples of mouse
Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
Another mouse study shows that weight cycling—losing and regaining weight—can intensify these immune cell changes and worsen metabolic health more than never losing the weight.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
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
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Noun
In 2019, Turlier and his collaborator Jean-Léon Maître, a cell and developmental biophysicist at the Curie Institute in Paris, observed a similar fracturing process in living tissue — mouse zygotes growing in a dish.
—Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
Another mouse study shows that weight cycling—losing and regaining weight—can intensify these immune cell changes and worsen metabolic health more than never losing the weight.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
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Maekar refuses, earning a cutting rebuttal from Dunk about the royal upbringing that turned Daeron (Henry Ashton) into a drunken coward and Aerion into an arrogant and cruel madman.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
23 Feb. 2026
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Please do not take the coward’s way.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The icicles that the Barton Family shared with us are much different.—
Ray Petelin,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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People were seen wearing lighted icicle tiaras or fiery orange costume wigs.—
Karie Angell Luc,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Guerschon Yabusele leveraged his success at the Olympics to revive his career and sneak back into the NBA.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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The most dangerous look in regulation for either team came in the 56th minute, when UC’s Hayden Goldstein nearly snuck a free kick from 36 yards out underneath the top crossbar before it was stopped by a leaping Williams.—
Clark Fahrenthold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2026
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Charles has visited every continent on Earth, drinking rancid yak butter tea in Lhasa, snorkeling with sea lions in the Galapagos and even climbing an iceberg in Antarctica.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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And not to rest until the iceberg is fully avoided—or removed.—
Phillip Atiba Solomon,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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During an epic research project spanning ten years, archaeologists first took to the skies in 2016 to investigate what might be lurking beneath the woods.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Mar. 2026
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For the survivors in Jerash, the site would serve as a reminder of the danger of unchecked microbes, lurking in the ecosystem.—
Durrie Bouscaren,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Henry is a megalomaniac and a complete wuss.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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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
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McTavish slid the puck through Devin Cooley’s legs for the shootout winner.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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Herbert had a chance to chip in on the par-three final hole to put pressure on the leader but his shot from off the green slid past the hole.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The upstart Slovaks, by far the story of this otherwise milquetoast tournament, will face either the United States or the winner of Wednesday’s Switzerland-Finland game in the semifinals on Friday, and are guaranteed to play in a medal game.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Tessa Thompson stars as the restless housewife who needs to secure her milquetoast husband (Tom Bateman) a promotion and has a nasty habit of playing with guns.—
Amy Nicholson,
Twin Cities,
14 Dec. 2025
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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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