1
as in walking
to go on foot
I stepped across the street for a quick lunch at the new diner
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2
as in dancing
to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music
she was in her element, happily stepping around the dance floor
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as in rushing
to proceed or move quickly
many people wanted to linger before the president's bier, but guards kept the line of mourners stepping forward
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Recent Examples of stepping
The kind that tells you that stepping away, even for a week, could make everything fall apart.
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Soulaima Gourani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Soulaima Gourani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The driving rats project has opened new and unexpected doors in my behavioral neuroscience research lab.Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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Modern cars have almost unilaterally replaced dashboards full of tactile knobs with sleek, iPad-like digital displays, despite concerns these alluring devices might be making distracted driving worse.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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The jumping-for-beef gag is meme magic in itself — and has helped the Parkour Civilization phenomenon blow up on X (formerly Twitter) in recent days.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
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Nighttime experiences are spookier, with darker lighting and characters in scary masks jumping out to startle visitors.Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2024
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Most novelists freely pump the gas and the brakes, zipping through the boring bits to get to the good ones, but his pacing is remorselessly steady, the metronome locked at 60, one second per second.Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
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Quanta Magazine caught up with him a couple of times this year over Zoom to hear why space-time might be fundamental after all, and what the symmetries of the particles zipping around in it might suggest.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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The work stoppage had threatened to disrupt supply chains, causing shortages of some consumer goods and supplies needed to keep US factories running.Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
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Despite a strong stretch drive, their final record of 93-69 left them five games behind the front-running Dodgers in the National League West.Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The ongoing geopolitical issues globally have kept the defense stocks buzzing.Trefis Team, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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But Democratic attendees at Walz's rally on Saturday were buzzing about Senate race.Isabella Murray, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Stepping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepping. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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