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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
David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
But the Kraken were slow to pounce on the takeaway, giving Hartman time to send a shot from distance past the Seattle goalie.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 9 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
Nurses pounce in to start CPR on unresponsive patients across the country every day.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
But the Kraken were slow to pounce on the takeaway, giving Hartman time to send a shot from distance past the Seattle goalie.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pounce
Noun
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This is not just an alarming new attack that has caused chaos across the iWorld.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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One of the major ironies out of the Minnesota anti-ICE attack on a Baptist church last week is that former CNN host Don Lemon, one of the participants, is being investigated under the Ku Klux Klan Act.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
24 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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McNeel enters the runoff against Brown with unified GOP backing in a district designed for Republicans to romp.—
Adam Beam,
AJC.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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With a 56-22 dismantling of Oregon, Indiana has romped through this College Football Playoff like nothing the sport has seen in years, if ever.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
10 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 27 Jan. 2026.
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