GOOSE-STEPS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

goose-steps

verb

present tense third-person singular of goose-step

as in stamps

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The company that stamps its name on a custom chip and the company that captures the durable profit from it are rarely the same.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Where to buy Mister Rogers stamps The Mister Rogers Stamps will be available for purchase at any post office nationwide and on The Postal Store online.

— Greta Cross, USA Today, 26 May 2026

Definition of stamps

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If anything, the dichotomy between the pop star who prances around Versailles in a sheer nightie and the pop star who stomps onstage in knee-high combat boots feels completely authentic and intentional.

— Chelsey Sanchez, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
Suddenly, the trees part and a Tyrannosaurus rex stomps into view.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 11 June 2026

Definition of stomps

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The new 6th Street Bridge, hailed as a civic landmark just steps away, was promptly stripped of its wiring by vandals and now sits pitch black at night.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
By Saturday afternoon, as thousands of people waited in hours-long lines to see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall just steps away, handmade signs were back, as were new printouts from this morning’s Inquirer about the site.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026

Definition of steps

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Enola dutifully trudges between clues and possibilities, shuffling through crime scenes and racing around shady spaces, all of this much more paint-by-numbers than connect-the-dots.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 June 2026
However, even as the team trudges to a play-in spot rather than a top seed, Green was adamant that the Warriors’ standard of competitiveness cannot change.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026

Definition of trudges

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That a creditor files an application for a charging order may cause the payor to withhold payments from the debtor until the application is decided.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
When a citizen files a police report and shares it with Gabriel, the company hands the victim relevant footage with faces blurred.

— Harry Booth, Time, 26 June 2026

Definition of files

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This stone stays cool even in direct sunlight, with varied blues complementing the historic stonework and bluestone stair treads.

— Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 23 June 2026
The paper treads similar ground as previous research, which has noted large language models’ ability to search genomes for genes that have been sequenced after a patient was first seen in a hospital.

— Jared Perlo, NBC news, 18 June 2026

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