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rustling

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verb

present participle of rustle
1
as in grazing
to feed on grass or herbs just take the steer out to pasture and let it rustle for itself

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3
as in crackling
to make small sounds usually by rubbing or moving my pet peeve is candy wrappers rustling during a movie

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rustling
Noun
  • If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020
  • There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2013
Noun
  • At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.
    Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Byron is surveying rout and pillage, and the terrible ease with which the laws of civil society, such as respect for the elderly, are flung aside.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Kate Okorie Forced out by insurgency In 2014, the same year that the abduction of nearly 300 girls from a school in Chibok in northern Nigeria grabbed international headlines, Mary Musa and her family were displaced from their community in Borno state by the Boko Haram militant group.
    Kate Okorie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024
  • After the abduction and murder of Samsoe, Alcala's Los Angeles parole officer recognized a police sketch matching Alcala and advised authorities to look into him as a suspect.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
  • The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023

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“Rustling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rustling. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.

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