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Recent Examples of pounce
Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
But Carol finds her courage and pounces on his face.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
But fortune favors the bold, and the Celtics have shown the willingness to pounce when an unexpected opportunity comes their way.
—Sam Amick, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The bear repeated the raking pounce a little higher up Duane’s back.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
But Carol finds her courage and pounces on his face.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
Kam Kinchens and Cobie Durant will be looking to pounce on any mistakes Sam Darnold makes.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
But fortune favors the bold, and the Celtics have shown the willingness to pounce when an unexpected opportunity comes their way.
—Sam Amick, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pounce
Noun
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His June assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities had two carrier groups in the region, more there as a counter-weight to any Iranian reprisals than to be directly involved in the attack.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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Senegal -- The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on an air force base in Niger's capital that wounded four soldiers and damaged an aircraft.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Performers dance onstage, festoon the rafters overhead and cavort throughout the room in a 90-minute extravaganza.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Just a few weeks earlier, Miguel Angel Garcia Medina, 31, had been cavorting with his four children at their Arlington, Texas, home, meeting his 8-year-old daughter for lunch at school and giddily planning the arrival of their fifth child.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
22 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Children romped around in the park’s playground while adults went from booth to booth speaking with various vendors and gathering resource handouts.—
Marianne Love,
Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026
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My wife made a huge pot of soup to help keep us warm, my son created a path with a snowblower so that our dogs could romp in the snow.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Birds in the steppe fly by, frolicking, and disappear somewhere in the sky, in distant silence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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The then-Duke and Duchess of Cambridge started the year with a private family ski holiday to the French Alps and delighted royal watchers by sharing adorable photos of a 2-year-old Prince George and a 10-month-old Princess Charlotte frolicking in the snow.—
Stephanie Bridger-Linning,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
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An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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“Pounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pounce. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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