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Recent Examples of goose-step
On some milestone birthdays, North Korea’s military holds huge parades with goose-stepping soldiers and powerful weapons capable of targeting the U.S. and South Korea.
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Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-step
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The Indian Army shared photos of the rescue on X, with army members trudging through thick snow to get to the avalanche site.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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And as his fellow nominees have trudged through the Q&As, Chalamet has largely eschewed the traditional banalities of awards season.—
Ramin Setoodeh,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Warren’s deep, husky voice frees himself from the blame of an unhealthy relationship over a stomping piano beat.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
21 Jan. 2025
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Boston stomped the competition last season en route to winning their record 18th NBA championship.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The blood clinic where Gemma and Mark meet, as well as the fertility clinic the two use are both stamped with the Lumon logo, which might explain how Gemma got roped into being severed.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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This time last year, Lincoln men’s basketball stamped its first CIAA Tournament championship in program history.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Feb. 2025
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The group then marched to CUNY’s City College in Harlem, where Gov. Hochul was scheduled to speak at a workforce event that was called off at the eleventh hour.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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In March 1913, thousands of women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the day before the presidential inauguration in protest of women’s disenfranchisement in elections.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The looming tariff prospects have caused uneasiness among investors, with the S & P 500 treading water through a volatile first two months of the year.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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More to Read Review: ‘Bacon’ treads the line between love and abuse for teenage boys in a Rogue Machine powerhouse Feb. 12, 2025 Douglas Lyons writes comedies centering Black women.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Right before Zen Arcade, Hüsker Dü collectively made a decision to step away from punk politics and get more punk personal.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2025
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Hunt remembers one of his prouder moments as a General coming on Day One of the draft, when the Flyers brass stepped onto the stage.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
8 Mar. 2025
Verb
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There are some baffling tonal shifts between goofy sci-fi and high drama and the whole thing just takes too long to get going, spending much of its runtime plodding around on Earth.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Rather than plod chronologically through her subject’s 80 years on earth, Morrison adapts the magazine writer’s technique of cutting back and forth between present and past.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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All over the island, Balinese people parade Ogoh-Ogoh—giant papier-mâché effigies of demons—that symbolize the ongoing battle between good and evil.—
Johanna Read,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Bibas family The boys' remains were returned Saturday, following a ceremony which saw Hamas militants parade their coffins on stage in scenes that have been widely condemned by human rights groups and the international community.—
Max Butterworth,
NBC News,
26 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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