goose-step

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Recent Examples of goose-step On some milestone birthdays, North Korea’s military holds huge parades with goose-stepping soldiers and powerful weapons capable of targeting the U.S. and South Korea. Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024 Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda. 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
Verb
  • In one instance, the couple trudged through a Canadian snowstorm in order to shop the famous Hornstein collection.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Told to make their own way, Abdullah trudged six miles on a path lighted only by the glow from her phone as rain turned the ground to mud.
    Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Don’t be surprised if a herd of wild horses stomps their way through your campsite.
    Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But to have her kind of stomping through the hallways again?
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • To obtain the name of the winner of the Sweepstakes, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope by March 31, 2025 to: SHE Media LLC, 475 5th Ave New York, NY.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 6 Mar. 2025
  • If your child is a sound sleeper, stamp their hand with a shamrock stamp, shamrock stickers, or even a washable shamrock tattoo.
    Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The announcement came days after thousands of United fans marched in protest against the club’s ownership in the face of cost cuts, ticket price rises and ongoing failure on the field.
    James Robson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Thousands of people marched in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to commemorate International Women’s Day and advocate for the restoration and expansion of women’s rights in the United States and worldwide.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Yet while emerging technologies offer incredible opportunities, leaders must tread carefully.
    Matthew Putman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The season’s narrative treads no new ground for any of our main characters, which will frustrate anybody who enters Born Again studied in everything that has come before, from the Netflix series to The Punisher spinoff to Echo.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • An encore career is a second act—a career pursued after retiring or stepping away from one’s primary profession.
    Andrew Rosen, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Since 2022, when the Die Hard and Sixth Sense actor was diagnosed with aphasia and stepped away from acting, his family has long offered public shows of support, all through the progression of his condition to frontotemporal dementia in 2023.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The dramatized version simply floats, roils and plods forward as if being tugged dutifully along, ticking off checkpoints along the way.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
  • There are some baffling tonal shifts between goofy sci-fi and high drama and the whole thing just takes too long to get going, spending much of its runtime plodding around on Earth.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • To see hostages paraded like props in front of the cameras to the screaming hordes in Gaza in successive releases, no one had anything to say about that.
    David Draiman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
  • At 8, O’Neal, a precocious, adorable kid, didn’t choose to audition for the director, but was instead simply paraded before him by her father.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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