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as in chased
to seek out (game) for food or sport
lions stalking gazelles on the plains
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as in strutted
to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements
the irate customer stalked off in a huff
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Recent Examples of stalked
Once news of her operations came to light, Addison became the target of pro-life activists — who stalked and doxxed her, threw a brick into Grey Sloan’s clinic, and even tried to run her over with a car.
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Max Gao, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
These included Martin, Bailey, Samantha Boniface and Melanie, who told The Guardian that Hardy cyber-stalked and harassed roughly 25 of their female classmates.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
The series stars Jared Harris as Francis Crozier as captain of the HMS Terror and Tobias Menzies as James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus, whose crews are stalked by a spectral creature called a Tuunbaq after the ships are trapped in the ice.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 23 Jan. 2026
Continue reading … ‘OUT OF NOWHERE’ – Men visiting popular tourist area stalked and shot dead after car trouble, family says.
—FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Three leathery older women stalked through the halls.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
People were obsessed with him, people stalked him, people died because of him.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Somehow, Olinger said, the jaguars always seemed to evade the traps with the team’s high-end gear and instead stalked past the smaller research cameras.
—Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 14 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors allege Mangione stalked Thompson online and in person to carry out the killing.
—Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
Max Gao, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
These included Martin, Bailey, Samantha Boniface and Melanie, who told The Guardian that Hardy cyber-stalked and harassed roughly 25 of their female classmates.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
The series stars Jared Harris as Francis Crozier as captain of the HMS Terror and Tobias Menzies as James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus, whose crews are stalked by a spectral creature called a Tuunbaq after the ships are trapped in the ice.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 23 Jan. 2026
Continue reading … ‘OUT OF NOWHERE’ – Men visiting popular tourist area stalked and shot dead after car trouble, family says.
—FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Three leathery older women stalked through the halls.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
People were obsessed with him, people stalked him, people died because of him.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Somehow, Olinger said, the jaguars always seemed to evade the traps with the team’s high-end gear and instead stalked past the smaller research cameras.
—Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 14 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors allege Mangione stalked Thompson online and in person to carry out the killing.
—Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalked
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But Niklas was the only one who chased Nordic combined initially.—
Dana ONeil,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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The warrant declaration states that footage from a Ring camera captured images of Rebecca Marodi fleeing their home as her wife chased her.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny spotlights Puerto Rican cuisine As Bad Bunny strutted down the Super Bowl stage, the singer highlighted the hallmarks of Puerto Rican cuisine.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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López joined in for a few moves, then strutted to the ring wearing beetle-green gloves.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The design is meant to reorient us, to take us on a trail walked not by humans but traversed and carved by elephants, a creature still misunderstood, vilified and hunted for its cataclysmic-like ability to reshape land, and sometimes communities.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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McMann hunted, but never cheated, for offence.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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None of them had any idea as to what was wrong with Nix until Payton, in street clothes, strode back to the postgame podium for the second time Saturday night after the madness cleared.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
17 Jan. 2026
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Nineteen years ago, Mike Tomlin strode to a microphone in Pittsburgh, debuting his iconic, confident gait.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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Here, the Multimatic True Active Spool Valve dampers (TASV) pranced and pranged over bumps, dips and cracks.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Enjoying one of these moments free from scrutiny, the five-foot-five, stocky Smalls playfully picked up the captain’s distinctive floppy hat and pranced around the ship, imitating his mannerisms.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Nov. 2025
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At last Sun Ra sashayed onstage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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Dancing With the Stars pro Gleb Savchenko and troupe member Marcquet Hill sashayed their way onto Tuesday's episode of the long-running CBS soap as a couple of hip-thrusting bachelorette party dancers.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Feb. 2026
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Attendee’s workday blues than completely vanished thanks to Billboard‘s Hip-Hop Rookie of the Year GELO, who swaggered about the stage and ignited the party with the littest cuts off his debut album, League of My Own.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Stalked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalked. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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