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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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Noun
In one animal study, mice with colon cancer were fed purple sweet potatoes for 18 weeks. Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024 Their first order of business upon reuniting in the park is putting on their Mickey and Minnie ears and heading for a photo op with the world famous mice. Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
Verb
Researchers sifted through more than 13,000 potential candidate molecules to find one, called 6bK, that bound to mouse IDE in a test tube. Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2014 Anand Agarawala, co-founder and CEO of Spatial, which makes an app where brands and artists can build virtual spaces, said eye-tracking in VR is similar to mouse movements on a desktop, which many companies already collect and use for advertising purposes. Washington Post, 15 July 2021 See all Example Sentences for mouse 

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 20 Oct. 2024.

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