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mouse

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verb (1)

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

moused

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verb (2)

past tense of mouse

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mouse
Noun
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (2025) is alien-blasting fun with HDR support and mouse controls. Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025 There are left and right mouse buttons below the space bar which provides easy access to contextual menus in macOS with a quick thumb press. Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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 Cooking Salmon With Avocado and Cilantro Salad Jan. 14, 2025 If those don’t appeal, mouse your way over to New York Times Cooking and make your own list. Sam Sifton, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
  • That’s when one coward hit me from behind with a backpack.
    Brie Stimson , Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • There is no way a coward like Musk is in a position to accuse Sen. Kelly of being a traitor.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • It was filled with flowers, candles, branches and crystal icicles to create a winter wonderland.
    Emy LaCroix, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Another high point was snowshoeing in a forested canyon where a waterfall was all icicles.
    Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. the evening of April 14 at a speed of 20 knots and slipped below the surface at 2:20 a.m. the following morning, according to the National Museum of American History. More than 1,500 people died.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Just before midnight on April 14, 2012, the vessel sideswiped an iceberg.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • 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
  • Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • Lottie was running a pretty milquetoast self-help retreat.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The always-bold, always-hyper Daffy is incorrigibly incompetent, while shy milquetoast Porky is too busy nursing a crush on beautiful gum-flavor scientist Petunia Pig (voiced by Candi Milo) to ever really accomplish much.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But unlike jellyfish, which drift and swim in ocean currents, V. velella are at the mercy of the wind.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • For example, green fluorescent protein, which was discovered in jellyfish, is today used in medical studies to illuminate stages of embryological development and to reveal the growth of cancers and other types of cells.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Based on the bones found in the cave, many of which show marks from cutting and scraping, the local menu included some birds and small mammals, but also bigger game like bison, deer, relatives of modern horses, and wild sheep and goats.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025
  • It was withdrawn when Microsoft first unleashed it on the world, and was put through a privacy and security sheep dip before its second coming.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 15 May. 2025.

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