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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
Like everything having to do with measuring media audiences, change won’t happen at the click of a mouse. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 May 2026 Cleaning out a cabin after the winter — sweeping up mouse droppings — has been associated with hantavirus cases in the United States. Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 May 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
  • These are American cowards that are rooting against our Country.
    Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 13 May 2026
  • And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • On April 12, the Toronto Raptors transformed Drake’s usual courtside seats into a frozen display — complete with faux ice and icicles — in what appeared to be a not-so-subtle promotion for his upcoming album, Iceman.
    Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Some customers complain about large icicles and ice dams forming in the winter where there weren’t issues previously, which makes some homeowners question how well the system actually collects runoff.
    Dan Simms, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • That afternoon, Djena sneaked out of the house to meet Shams at the neighborhood Starbucks.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The Brewers tied it in the fourth when Luis Rengifo's grounder to third sneaked under Royce Lewis' glove and allowed Brice Turang to score.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • The diarrhea stories are only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
    Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
  • Eastern Greenland’s Scoresby Sound—a place of Arctic wilderness, icebergs and relatively stable skies— will see expedition cruise ships packed with eclipse chasers on expedition cruise ships.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
Verb
  • There is obviously a larger lesson lurking here, one about needing to trick out courses to combat unending progress, but no one has any time for that.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • There’s a set of boxing gloves lurking in that NPR tote bag.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Henry is a megalomaniac and a complete wuss.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Shaggy moved his limbs as instructed, and the carriage slid back and forth.
    Natalie Meade, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • His sliding catch in left field in the eighth prevented James Outman, who hit a one-out triple, from scoring the tying run from third.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • And Benjamin Cole is a likable milquetoast as Sarah’s original boyfriend, Chris.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • By all accounts, being a milquetoast is a sort of vice—cowardice masquerading as prudence.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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