stomp
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Music is embedded in our brains and in our bodies, expressed with every rhythmic breath and step we take, each time we clap our hands, stomp our feet, beat our chests, whistle, hum or sing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Carville’s reputation for colorful turns of phrase, and his tendency to stomp on any calls for the party to move left, made him a favorite of cable news programmers looking to make entertaining television.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The new record appeared to be following suit, with The Daily Telegraph's chief music critic Neil McCormick saying the band were "back with a pile-driving blues stomp".
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
Ones who’d stomp their feet above my bedroom at odd hours of the night or who’d block my parking garage without warning every time they had guests over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Then she’d stomp out to the kitchen hut and build such a huge fire in the iron stove you’d think she was Cape Carniveral launching a rocket ship.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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She smiles, laughs, cries, makes jokes, stomps her foot, flirts and gossips about other women with a girlfriend.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
In his bedroom, Salmon growls and stomps around.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
This is most clearly shown in Gene Kelly’s dance in the rain where he stomps in puddles and spins his umbrella.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Biologically and linguistically, our two species couldn’t be more different: This seemingly inorganic walking sculpture from the planet Erid communicates in a mix of whale song and stomps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
I make a bunch of noise, stamping on the floor, clearing my throat several times, a few more stomps, then step around the corner.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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Last week, a small section of CNN and Variety’s February town hall interview with Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey broke the internet’s door down and stomped into the public consciousness.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
But she fell on a cab double cork 1080, which she had stomped in her first two runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
After a dreadful service game handed an immediate second-set break to Svitolina, Sabalenka glared at her team, stomped to her seat and then broke back at the first opportunity.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
The bruising evening made Indiana’s coronation starkly different from its previous two rounds in the playoff, when the Hoosiers stomped heavyweights Alabama and Oregon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
The jackalope stomped his foot so fast, it looked like a blur.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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But more recently, a confluence of factors has made New York's coast less of a highway and more of a stomping ground.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Speaking with Realtor.com about the expansion, Serhant reveals that choosing the Lone Star State as the brokerage’s new stomping grounds was “strategic.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Through two games at this World Cup—a 3-0 stomping of Algeria and Monday’s 2-0 stroll—Messi has notched 100% of his team’s goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
“I wanted a big stomping Los Angeles novel in the tradition of Carolyn See and Nathanael West,” Gale says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The children moved in a clot down the hill, stomping and pushing and screaming but never straying far from each other.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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