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stride

verb as in walk purposefully

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The students may not be walking a mile in one another’s shoes, but they take several major strides in them.

Like Bezos, those who know Jassy expect him to take the criticism of Amazon in stride.

If he’d have had the start he had from the pocket and didn’t have the ability to run, we would have never known the strides that he could make as a passer, just because they wouldn’t have given him that time to develop.

She seems to glide around the court with long strides but has the size to be active in the paint.

That could be why he takes it in stride, after all — because it doesn’t upset him at all.

The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.

Gil turned and saw Muhammad Ali stride out of the stage entrance, smiling and scowling at the same time.

Once in her stride, she turned her Moomin books into masterpieces of word in consort with image.

The Hoboken swagger had been replaced by a Wall Street stride.

That brassy ploy had caught the Costa Ricans entirely off-guard and had knocked them off their stride.

But in the fineness of the leaf, tobacco culture has made its greatest stride.

Then the young matron advanced along the board walk with a sort of trembling stride.

And they have a free wild grace, a stride, a swing—it is wonderful to watch them go up these hills.

Civilization at a stride has moved a thousand miles, and taken possession of the home of the buffalo.

He said something inaudible to Nina and went out of the room with a light, energetic stride.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stride, such as: stalk, traipse, tramp, clump, march, and pace.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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