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Recent Examples of pounce
Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
But Carol finds her courage and pounces on his face.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
Kam Kinchens and Cobie Durant will be looking to pounce on any mistakes Sam Darnold makes.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The bear repeated the raking pounce a little higher up Duane’s back.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
But Carol finds her courage and pounces on his face.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
As the central not-quite-couple, Son and Choi are intriguingly unpredictable together at first, like a pair of stray cats sizing each other up, ready to pounce or run as needed.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
Kam Kinchens and Cobie Durant will be looking to pounce on any mistakes Sam Darnold makes.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pounce
Noun
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Militants have carried out shooting attacks on troops, and Israel says its strikes are in response to that and other violations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The administration’s attacks on Lemon and independent journalists have boosted their online attention and revenue.—
Drew Harwell,
Washington Post,
14 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Gabriel Martinelli was next on the scene, then Jurrien Timber, who was followed by a jubilant William Saliba, cavorting like a hyperactive toddler.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Performers dance onstage, festoon the rafters overhead and cavort throughout the room in a 90-minute extravaganza.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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As a bonus, we’re rewarded with-sexy guys romping about in and out of form-fitting leather chaps and then in and out of tight wrestling tights.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Children romped around in the park’s playground while adults went from booth to booth speaking with various vendors and gathering resource handouts.—
Marianne Love,
Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The estate more or less promises an unlimited school yard for guests of all ages to frolic through and get all of their pent up energy out.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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The trucks hauling the snow frolicked in the water, sending dirty gray ripples toward me.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town.—
Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Pounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pounce. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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