GOOSE-STEPS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

goose-steps

verb

present tense third-person singular of goose-step

as in stamps

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The guard stamps my name before shoving a copy of the week’s pamphlet in my hand.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
For generations, athletes have been treated as if motherhood stamps their athletic identities with an expiration date.

— Lynda Lin Grigsby, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of stamps

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His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
At one point Evans stomps in to a Fielder secondary interview to try to stop it.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomps

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The vehicle then accelerates forward as an officer steps toward it with his gun drawn.

— Dan Gallo, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Advertisement No end to the season could have been more apt than Joanne and Noah pledging their eternal love while, in a gorgeous beachfront rental just steps away, their parents and siblings tear each other apart.

— Judy Berman, Time, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of steps

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Six months later, the war trudges on, indirectly ensnaring much of the world by severely disrupting global trade.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2026
Enola dutifully trudges between clues and possibilities, shuffling through crime scenes and racing around shady spaces, all of this much more paint-by-numbers than connect-the-dots.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 June 2026

Definition of trudges

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Correspondence files that document how a company responded at the moments that mattered most.

— Amanda Turcotte, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Sweden files more patents per person than almost every other European country, hosts four of the world’s top 130 universities, and is ranked by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization as the second most innovative economy on earth.

— Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of files

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Trump treads carefully The leaders last met in Beijing just four months ago, and could meet twice more later this year.

— Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Through rapid-fire verbal repartee, constant close-ups, and frantic cuts, Deramas treads a careful line between tragedy and comedy, the latter a psychological weapon against the former.

— Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026

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