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Definition of mousenext

mouse

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verb

as in to sneak
to move about in a sly or secret manner a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden

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Recent Examples of mouse
Noun
The same molecular chain of events also showed up in the mouse brain, according to research led by Thomas Papouin at Washington University School of Medicine and published in the same Science issue. Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026 The research suggests that the cat-and-mouse game of cybersecurity is no longer constrained by cost. Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
Verb
Such original approaches to mouse controls could be Nintendo's secret weapon on the Switch 2, and developers are already coming up with more inventive uses for the tech than simply bringing a cursor to console gaming. Matt Kamen, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025 What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup. Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
  • Please do not take the coward’s way.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The mild temperatures, the melt, and gravity conspired to destroy the back window of a car when a giant icicle came crashing through it.
    Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • When the Niagara Falls become the Frozen Falls, icicles dangle off the edge of the cliffs and clouds of frozen mist bathe the scene in a filmy white.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Nasir Khan, a scrawny Pakistani American college student living with his parents in Queens, sneaks out and drives his dad’s taxi to a party in Manhattan.
    Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Bhansali has to scan all of his diamonds — millions per year — to make sure no lab-growns have been snuck in the mix.
    Chris Livesay, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But that was just the tip of the nostalgic iceberg as the commercial revealed actors from the beloved era of TV comedies.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026
  • An Icebreaker makes the path for a cargo ship with an iceberg in the background near a port on the Alexandra Land island near Nagurskoye, Russia, in May 2021.
    CBS News, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • But hey, this was the '90s, when being weird for weird's sake was a thing, and a creepy animatronic penguin lurking in the shadows and terrorizing humans in a variety of '90s-ish noir settings is definitely that.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Expecting to find traces of the past in the old town of Regensburg, at first, archaeologists believed nothing that exciting lurked here.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.
    Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
Verb
  • Crashes, luge athletes will tell you, are part of the game, a necessary teaching tool that helps young lugers learn how to navigate sliding on their back down an icy course, sometimes faster than 90 miles per hour.
    Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Tessa Thompson stars as the restless housewife who needs to secure her milquetoast husband (Tom Bateman) a promotion and has a nasty habit of playing with guns.
    Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Each of the game’s major areas — with milquetoast monikers like Flare Pool and Volt Forge — saddles the player with a new Federation members who’s been trapped on Viewros.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2025

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.

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