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Recent Examples of goose-step
On some milestone birthdays, North Korea’s military holds huge parades with goose-stepping soldiers and powerful weapons capable of targeting the U.S. and South Korea.
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Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
North Korea’s massive ground force, whose goose-stepping soldiers are often paraded with fanfare, substantially outsizes that of the South, but the country’s Soviet-era military equipment pales in comparison to the technologically superior weapons systems of its opponents.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-step
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As the offseason continues to trudge along, there will likely only be more rumors swirling the longer Rodgers takes to sign with a team.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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Ange Postecoglou was trudging off the field, having watched his Tottenham Hotspur side surrender to a dismal 0-2 loss at the hands of Fulham, when a fan’s complaints reached his ears.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Kiki Platform Mary Jane Few shoes have stomped their way into the fashion lexicon quite as rapidly as Marc Jacobs’s Kiki platforms.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2025
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Witnesses on the flight told authorities Augustin was stomping, yelling, shaking and being incoherent, the document continued.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Ukraine’s notorious bureaucracy, while modernizing, could still hamper foreign investments, as could a system of corruption that some experts caution has defied efforts to stamp it out.—
Howard LaFranchi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Mar. 2025
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Certain four-digit combinations that make up a year seem to stamp themselves on my mind.—
Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
19 Mar. 2025
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On Sunday, Reed and activists will march from the City of St. Jude Church to the steps of the State Capitol, retracing the historic route marchers took in 1965.—
Axios,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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Thousands more marched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, waving Israeli flags, carrying a banner calling for new elections and accusing the Israeli government of working against its people.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Great talents have trodden the Old Trafford turf, from Cristiano Ronaldo to Paul Pogba, steeped in Sir Alex Ferguson-era winning machine culture.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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But some longtime observers are urging Democrats to tread carefully.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The former is a crime thriller about a former baseball player (Austin Butler) who gets caught up in New York City’s underworld in the 1990s, while the latter is a romantic fantasy that follows two middle aged people who step through a magical portal into their past lives.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2025
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Hart stepped off the rubber and threw to Machado for an easy out.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The dramatized version simply floats, roils and plods forward as if being tugged dutifully along, ticking off checkpoints along the way.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Feb. 2025
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There are some baffling tonal shifts between goofy sci-fi and high drama and the whole thing just takes too long to get going, spending much of its runtime plodding around on Earth.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The terrorists paraded them through the streets of Gaza as trophies.—
Efrat Lachter,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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Tehran eagerly parades its indigenous ballistic missiles on several occasions in an attempt to project military might and deter adversaries.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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