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Recent Examples of stalk
As Lowell stalks Jules, Dexter ambushes him from behind, employing the anesthesia Lowell uses on his victims to knock the Tattoo Collector out.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Here is a list of some of the tyrannosaurs that stalked the planet millions of years before T. rex.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
Booker said as his colleagues stalked out of the room.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025
There is the possibility a disease is affecting the flower stalks and young fruits.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2025
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Here is a list of some of the tyrannosaurs that stalked the planet millions of years before T. rex.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
Booker said as his colleagues stalked out of the room.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025
There is the possibility a disease is affecting the flower stalks and young fruits.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalk
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In one of his final public acts, Osbourne designed and signed limited-edition t-shirts to raise funds for the campaign, urging the UK government to ban the import of hunting trophies from endangered species.—
Amanda Castro
Gabe Whisnant
Anna Commander
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025
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Hakimi’s protagonist straddles the thin line between reality and fantasy, between cultures and languages, between hunting and being hunted.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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The hitmaker played the incident off by smiling big and strutting around the stage with her arms in the air, even pulling off a little spin.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
27 July 2025
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Stars strutted their stuff in high fashion, turning Gainbridge Fieldhouse into a runway.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
21 July 2025
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An ax-wielding stranger initially mistaken for a delivery driver chased a woman into her home, then led deputies on a 13-mile chase, a California sheriff’s office reported.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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Two years after the Goetz incident, a white mob in the Italian American enclave of Howard Beach in New York chased 23-year-old Michael Griffith and two friends, all Black, and beat Griffith to death for simply being in their neighborhood.—
Robert Chiarito,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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This should bode well for Ballerina prancing past $30M. Men showed up to the guns-blazing ballet Thursday night at 61%.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
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The sculpture includes the full car body, along with Ferrari’s official prancing horse badges, front and rear lamp lenses, and hood straps.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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“Stalk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalk. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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