1
as in shuffling
to move heavily or clumsily
came stomping up the stairs and tossed her backpack on the bed
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as in stamping
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure
stomping the burning leaves in a vain attempt to put out the fire
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Recent Examples of stomping
The sights and sounds of the Haka – feet stomping, fists pumping, vocal cords straining – are deeply entrenched within New Zealand culture and have been famously adopted by the country’s rugby teams as a pre-match ritual.
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Chris Lau, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
Chris Lau, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
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Honorable Mentions My Top Five stays the same as my recent mid-September update, but there was shuffling from #6-10 down the home stretch.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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On Monday, about three days after Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, survivors in North Carolina were scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter.Melissa Chan, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Instead of kicking a 56-yard field goal, the Falcons opted to punt — the first punt of the game for either team.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
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The men will be playing a game that involves kicking a ball, but there will be no tackling.Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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In other words, politics and emotion are presently trampling on market prices that, by virtue of them being set in markets, are free of politics and emotion.John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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The legend began after a series of bizarre and terrifying encounters in which settlers reported seeing the ghostly figure charging through the desert, sometimes trampling livestock or vanishing into the night.Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Stomping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stomping. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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