strides 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of stride
as in marches
to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group a gang of armed men strode into the bank and approached the teller

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strides

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noun

plural of stride

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Recent Examples of strides
Verb
Hansen strides into frame and asks the cowering man what his fate should be. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 Coach Chilton strides in, strikingly different from the coach Rebecca’s used to having stride into her office. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Ed Sheeran strides to Taylor Swift wedding Ed Sheeran, clad in a bright aqua blue suit, arrived holding hands with wife Cherry Seaborn. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 4 July 2026 Your father strides into the dining room, harried, shiny black hair parted to one side, his fingers buttoning the cuffs of his starched white collared shirt. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026 Nick Sirianni strides across the asphalt at a breezy pace, seemingly as serene as an on-the-job NFL head coach can ever be. — Michael Silver, New York Times, 16 June 2026 Throughout, the show’s trademark surreality and sense of play allowed Sweeney to act out massive emotional swings and to edge into the absurd, as in a sequence where Cassie strides through Los Angeles, towering over buildings and dominating the men below. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026 Mark Bradford strides by with a beneficent smile — towering over everyone, including AI art maker Refik Anadol. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 But perhaps no rock god ever went full Heathcliff the way Cliff Richard did for this 1996 musical, a stage production (with songs by John Farrar and Tim Rice) that re-creates scenes from the novel while Richard, as Heathcliff, strides through like a lordly narrator-protagonist. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
Bolt takes shorter strides than a human runner but makes up for it with a much faster stride rhythm. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strides
Verb
  • Even a Ken Ludwig script has to fight to stand out in this crowded field, but Jane Austen fans seem to be a gracious, easygoing, open-minded bunch and should be intrigued by this insensible sequel, even if a petty emperor marches right through it.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Long marches across the country also enabled the students to voice their cause in smaller towns and villages, where people were unaware of the protestors’ aims because of the state’s stranglehold on the media.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Bendon wasn’t trying to get Ashbeck fired from her new employer, where Bendon had received care for 12 years, but asked the clinic to take steps to prevent unauthorized access to her records, Westbrook said.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The rail line, steps from the ocean in San Clemente, has been battered by storms and high tides.
    — Michele Gile, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Throughout the recording, Taylor makes dramatic leaps from grumbling rhythms in his piano’s lower register and dizzying runs in its upper reaches.
    — Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
  • History is full of audacious technological leaps — moments when visionary engineering solved seemingly intractable problems.
    — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Commuting the death sentences of all 548 state prisoners awaiting execution pushes the bounds of his authority once again.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
  • And his strongest desires are for connection and, quite explicitly, for an ordinary life built upon love and its bounds.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Approximately 130 parachute jumps added an airborne component to the training.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The latest figures, released in April and based mostly on 2024 data, actually reflect a slowdown from earlier jumps.
    — Martie Bowser, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

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“Strides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strides. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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