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stride

[strahyd] / straɪd /


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U.S. stocks are taking it all in stride with futures pointing to modest gains at the open.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then Stafford hit him in stride for a 64-yard monster gain on the Rams’ third drive, which set up Kyren Williams’ 10-yard touchdown reception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"It's something I'm kind of used to, Smith said. "I've copped a lot at times away from home, at different venues across my career, and it's something that I take in my own stride.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Yields of 5% may be taken in stride, but hitting 5.5% or 6% on the 10-year note would be more concerning, Sockin said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

But before I could take one full stride, she’d shoved the cookie into her mouth and gobbled it up.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

"But when I met my oncologist I realised how ignorant I was and what gargantuan strides medicine has made recently."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

"We've made great strides, very positive for both countries," Trump told reporters as he had tea with Xi at the White House on Friday before the archives trip.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

This would require some cooperation between the two countries, as they have taken the greatest strides, and are also the leading competitors, in the new technology.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Chinese carmakers logged strong growth in European sales once again last month, making strides in winning over drivers on the continent as domestic rivals struggle to remain competitive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Judge Quinzy entered the room in three long strides, bearing a snifter of some dark, syrupy liquid.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Roberts strode from the dugout to pull him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Iran’s players strode out together from the Los Angeles Chargers’ locker room and made their way to a bus to LAX.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

"I'm the boss," Trump said as he strode in to the morning session of the last day, with the other leaders already in their seats.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

After summoning the White House press pool, Trump strode to a podium bearing the presidential seal and, unprompted, declared that the “lies” linking her to Jeffrey Epstein had to end.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

Having caught the attention of the concert crowd, Trey strode in a near straight line toward me, picnic blankets be damned, stumbling over the edge of the last one, shooting it a dirty look.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

And it is into this perceived vacuum that Andy Burnham has stridden, again, to the intense irritation of Downing Street and plenty of Labour MPs.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

He had stridden through the deep woods with no thought of danger; he concentrated only on finding the pair that he had seen so close to death.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry

A few minutes later Mr. Jeffries had gathered up his papers and had stridden past Evie Soames as if he had been unaware of her existence.

From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

He should have risen and stridden on with his retainers the miles that remained.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps

So saying, John Upham had stridden forth out of the doctor's yard, where he had held the conversation with him, with Jake Noyes and two other men covertly listening.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

There we discover that she is striding forward, signaling that the American project isn’t a one-off but a ceaseless effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Substitute Vladimir Smicer snuck another from long range before a striding Gerrard was clipped by Gennaro Gattuso.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

One imagines not the ghost of Cathy or Heathcliff, but a trio of women, very much alive and striding through the heather, their minds alight with the stories they would tell, set among similar terrain.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

It will be Vance striding toward planes in photographs and Vance standing behind podiums to explain why negotiations aren’t working.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026

This showed me to be somewhere in the region of New Jersey by about now, blithely striding off up to thirty miles a day.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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