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Recent Examples of lunge
Ian McMahan, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
Some exercise examples include lunges, bicep curls, crunches, jumping jacks, walking, and hiking.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 26 Sep. 2024
Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
On the second day, some of them shot and killed a homeless black man, known to the community, who had been lunging at someone with a knife about seven blocks from the perimeter.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Noun
This includes push-ups, squats, pull-ups, lunges and overhead presses.
—Ian McMahan, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
Some exercise examples include lunges, bicep curls, crunches, jumping jacks, walking, and hiking.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 26 Sep. 2024
Verb
While walking around her neighborhood in Stuart, Florida, Blu saw a rabbit and suddenly lunged toward it.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
On the second day, some of them shot and killed a homeless black man, known to the community, who had been lunging at someone with a knife about seven blocks from the perimeter.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunge
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The six-time All-Star responded to the Toronto superstar’s jabs in a postgame press conference.Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Highlights included jokes about Trump, who hosted SNL in 2015, wearing an orange and yellow safety jacket as a jab at a garbage controversy and a comedic bit involving a broken microphone.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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In Red One, Johnson does the exact same thing unironically, diving off Santa’s tower after his captors, then swinging off other structures and finding his way into a snowmobile-chase sequence.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Now is the perfect time to dive back in—or watch it all for the first time.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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Hurricane Oscar made landfall in far eastern Cuba around the same time as the blackout, throwing a one-two punch that has sapped precious resources in a country suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Live updates on Election Day snags:Legal fights and long, long lines Profanities and a punch that knocked glasses off judge's face Again, police reported, Schmidt was told to go to the back of the line.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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At the end of September, Harris was the favorite to win the election, according to Silver's forecast, but at the beginning of October, the vice president saw her chances plunge as Trump made gains in crucial battleground states.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Asia revenue, ex-Japan, plunged by 16% year-on-year in the third quarter.Sonia Heng,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Lunge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunge. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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