bounces

present tense third-person singular of bounce
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as in hops
to move with a light springing step the girl bounced excitedly alongside her parents as they hurried toward the entrance to the amusement park

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Verb
  • Annual Vehicle Inspections Eliminated Texas House Bill 3297 removes the requirement for annual mandatory safety inspections for non-commercial drivers as part of the vehicle registration process.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Then, using either his hands or his teeth, the groom removes it and throws it into a crowd of single men.
    Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • What scant information is available suggests a similar form factor and feature set to the first Switch released back in 2017.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The muted media response suggests that there is a growing gulf between what AI insiders are seeing and what the public is told.
    Garrison Lovely, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • So the Recruiter proposes a modified game of Russian roulette where one of them will die within six shots.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The rule proposes listing the migrant butterfly as a threatened species.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • First, there are those who lip-sync – like Kili Paul, a Tanzanian social media star who performs Bollywood and other movie hits against the backdrop of his rural community — a mix of greenery and low-slung buildings.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
  • But the next wave hits different.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • But this trip poses a new set of challenges.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But this trip poses a new set of challenges.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The year also began with a strong El Niño event, which occurs when the ocean in the Eastern Pacific releases large amounts of heat to the atmosphere, raising global temperatures.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Humiliated when Iran releases the hostages minutes after Reagan is inaugurated.
    Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
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