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mouse

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verb

as in to sneak
to move about in a sly or secret manner a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden

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Recent Examples of mouse
Noun
Synovial joints also cannot develop without muscle activity, which is crucial in the development of joints in chicken and mouse embryos—and the synovial joints of little skates actually develop similarly. Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025 Despite moving on to Only Murders in the Building and that one movie, Gomez still holds fond memories of her time with the mouse. Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
There’s no more wasting time mousing all over the screen just to adjust the size of a brush or to set a different value. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 With Signature Slim Combo, IT teams can mass deploy a single keyboard and mouse across an entire global workforce while keeping an eye on all the devices remotely using Logitech Sync to update the firmware. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
  • There is no way a coward like Musk is in a position to accuse Sen. Kelly of being a traitor.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
  • This is a cop novel that fully satisfies its genre expectations — chases, gun battles, sinister bad guys, questionable cops, cowards and heroes.
    Claude Peck, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • At one point the path is flanked by rugged rock walls dripping with icicles that glisten in the sun.
    Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • How did Passover and Easter sneak up on us so fast?
    Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But a better travel pillow does all that and sneaks an extra day’s worth of clothing onto the plane without catching a gate agent’s attention.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His focus moves to the small iceberg painting on his office wall, his body casting a stark silhouette against the window.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • That room is so quiet and dusty and strange and cold, and all of that’s reflected in real things like the icebergs floating by.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Right behind each of them are the Los Angeles Lakers and Memphis Grizzlies, just lurking as the season winds down.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
  • These methods can easily miss deeper behavioral indicators that would signal a malicious payload lurking beneath the surface.
    Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Verb
  • In Italy, Tesla’s first-quarter sales slid 7% compared with the same time last year, according to the country’s transport ministry.
    Robert Ilich, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Tire tread depth - Checking your tire tread before hitting the road is important, as low or no tread can lead to sliding.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.
    Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.

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