Thesaurus results for MOUSING

mousing

verb

present participle of mouse

as in sneaking

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

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Bus noise was a similar story, with the low engine rumble handled well and only some of the higher-frequency intermittent sounds sneaking through.

— Christian de Looper, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
For a solid thirty minutes, the candidates defended their honor as the race’s most pro-Israel candidate — at times sneaking in jabs about their opponent.

— Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026

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Clarke and Henrik Stenson appeared to be in a two-man race, with Mario Tiziani lurking, until none could keep with Sabbatini and his explosive final round.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
The Atlas Group primed viewers to read his documents as unstable, but the later work asks them to contend with shrunken objects, resurrected paintings, and vampires lurking in the archive.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

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Leeds is in the zone here, and because most of the tracks are about the same length and there are no ambient interludes or pop-length counterbalances, the album’s lengthy runtime ends up sliding by pretty easily.

— Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
Prosecutors said authorities responded to a report of a shattered sliding glass door and significant fire damage inside the home.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026

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