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Recent Examples of goose-step
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
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Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-step
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On October 4, 2024, American climber Tracee Metcalfe trudged toward the summit of 26,335-foot Shishapangma in Tibet.Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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Leatherface might get to trudge home at the end of the film, but the franchise certainly doesn’t.Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Instead of stomping their feet, her parents could simply say her name.Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
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Dinosaurs stomp past, ice ages come and go, indigenous people hunt for food.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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That photo is stamped at 12:53 a.m. on March 30, 2024.Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Get your bingo card stamped at each location to win prizes.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2024
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On Thursday, dozens of city staffers and first responders marched through the muck.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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During early voting, young women on the North Carolina State University campus marched to the polls with a pro-choice message, inviting men to join them.Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Trump’s willingness to take risks, his boldness in appearing in places and situations where the old Republican Party feared to tread, his knack for the memorable photo and cutting riposte have defined his political career and the 2024 campaign.Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2 Nov. 2024
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The Harris campaign has sought to tread a line between tightening border security, while also avoiding demonizing migrants writ large.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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There was a college homecoming feel with members of the Divine Nine, the network of Black fraternities and sororities, stepping and strolling to upbeat music.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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When Freedman stepped away from the gallery, Fitzpatrick paused his gallery’s programming just a few months before the pandemic, reopening at his most recent Paris location in 2020.Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the meantime, the plodding march into the uncertain next chapter of college sports realignment continues.Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
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The flashback narrative is plodding, too, making a redundant case for parental concern that the audience would have accepted as normal behavior without explanation.Michael Alan Connelly, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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Many messy-haired brown men put forth their faces for judgment: singing, dancing and parading themselves in front of the massive crowd of screaming girls.Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Westbrook paraded out to the scene of the crime and pointed to the other end of the floor, gleefully mimicking the foul call himself.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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