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[strahyd] / straɪd /


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Jacquet is part of a quartet at Anfield, alongside Bradley Barcola, Victor Munoz and Ronald Araujo, taking English lessons and like everything else, he is understood to be taking that in his stride.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

When Minaj was in her stride, she earned the moniker “Queen of Rap.”

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

On the surface, universities are taking the dip in computer-science enrollment in stride, especially at the nation’s most selective colleges.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Fitzgerald deemed the work “damn good” but cautioned that it didn’t find its stride until page 29.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He took a long stride with his free foot, and his anchored leg stretched in that rubbery way of his.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

OpenAI seems to be making financial strides, and that’s been seen as good news for Oracle and other artificial-intelligence stocks on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 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

She said AI is making impressive strides but thinks claims by engineers that they’ve achieved recursive self-improvement don’t stand up to scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Huge strides have been made on that front, and the Match Officials Mic'd Up VAR TV show was a trailblazer among the top European leagues.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

He paused every few strides, clinging to brambles and roots, struggling against the pull of Pain as he strained to listen for her reply.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

During that baffling streak, Italians strode out into the world and challenged for the America’s Cup, won the Tour de France, and dazzled British royalty at Wimbledon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

On Aug. 5, Betancourt strode into a conference room behind the art deco facade of the old Greyhound Bus Terminal in downtown Washington that houses an auxiliary Pentagon office.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

At Hampton Court Palace, head gardener Graham Dillamore strode across the burnt beige grass in the spectacular formal gardens southwest of London, laid out in the 17th century.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Traore has remained cool, calm and collected throughout his journey, even when he strode on to the NFL Draft stage.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Dean Nabokov strode through the halls, shooing everyone to their proper places.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

Then, half-mad with grief, the old man had flung the reins across the steaming beast, and without a word of explanation had stridden away in the direction of Sallertaine.

From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Ren? Bazin

But he spake nought thereof, and strode on toward the Uttermost House, even as that other day he had stridden away from it.

From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by William Morris

The larger quarter deck on to which Sir George Grey had stridden, much needed cleaning up.

From The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by James Milne

Rangzen's livestream of his death shows a heavy-set man striding across a street in a traditional "chuba" robe and planting a Tibetan flag outside the UN.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

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

Co-written by actual opera singer Vesna Aćimović, it's all about women breaking free of gender stereotypes and striding towards a new dawn.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

They completed their walk in silence, and when they parted ways, Celaena quickly wished Nehemia a pleasant evening before striding to her part of the castle.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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