stalk
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The city used an economic office to stalk dissidents in the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
These organisms had U-shaped bodies and were anchored to the seafloor by a stalk.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
"Wilder is going to be coming on strong early, but I expect Derek to weather the storm, stalk his man down and finish it in big style in the 12th round."
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
She picked up the abandoned grass stalk, stuck it into the same hole and pulled it out to find it covered with termites.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
The bare and lonely fact of it made her feel like a solitary stalk of grass left waving forlornly in a field after the thresher had come and harvested all the rest for hay.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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