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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stutter-steps
Verb
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In it, his character evades deadly hunters by jumping out a hotel window and then rappelling down the side of a building while wearing barely a stitch.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025 -
The rest of the song fails to answer these questions and evades reference to anything else internet-y, focusing instead on litigating receipts and affairs.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Built around those calls — punctuated by Hassona’s own images — the film sidesteps the usual remove of war docs for something rawer and more intimate, the kind of testimony that has sparked emotional audience responses since Cannes and subsequent European outings.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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His company, Echo, sidesteps the problem, using not a chip with probes, but a thin film that sits on the brain without penetrating it.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Stutter-steps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stutter-steps. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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