stalked

verb

past tense of stalk
1
as in chased
to seek out (game) for food or sport lions stalking gazelles on the plains

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2
as in strutted
to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements the irate customer stalked off in a huff

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Recent Examples of stalked The first episode started with poor Struan Loy getting stalked and later torched alive by a pair of Russian assassins as relentless and seemingly unkillable as Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 Director Robert Eggers delivers a taut, terrifying period piece with this tale of a 17th-century New England family expelled from their village and stalked by a witch — a movie that also put the then-fledgling studio A24 on the map. — David Faris, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026 In the 1980s, French intelligence stalked American technology firms. — David S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026 Angry about a yearslong lawsuit, the doctor had threatened Cozzi in a restroom and stalked him outside his home, prosecutors said. — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 The Sacramento woman was killed last Tuesday by a man who had stalked her for months, according to authorities. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Thakur had reported being stalked by Rohit Rohit, 22, since January and had taken out a restraining order against him in May, authorities said. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026 Masked men staked out his home and stalked his wife on the street. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 The feds’ case alleged that Mangione had stalked the executive for weeks and laid out plans to kill him in a manifesto that lamented greed in the health insurance industry at the expense of everyday Americans’ well-being. — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalked
  1. chased
  2. strutted
  3. hunted
  4. strode
  5. pranced
  6. sashayed
  7. swaggered
Verb
  • Quarterback Ryan Rakowski of Palos Verdes High was rolling right while being chased.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Hayden said 32-year-old Lemark Jaramillo had chased a 17-year-old boy into the restaurant and was trying to stab him in retaliation for a fight that happened moments before at a nearby Chipotle.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of chased
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  • The song ended with Gigi Hadid emerging on stage and having a sweet moment with McRae, who strutted side-by-side with the veteran VS Angel for a few beats before falling back and finishing out the track.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Number 87 strutted into Arrowhead Stadium after the NFL bye week wearing a cable knit, wool-blend letterman cardigan ($249) from the line.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of strutted
Verb
  • For the intismeran study, scientists hunted gene mutations unique to each patient’s tumor, mutations that create proteins which shouldn’t be in the body unless those cancer cells start to grow again.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Continue reading ⦠SOUTH OF THE BORDER â Dog the Bounty Hunter hunted Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico in 2003, now serial rapist is free.
    — , FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of hunted
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  • But then James Bond strode into the pages of popular culture, dapper and deft.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As the book shows, into that incredibly fertile downtown atmosphere strode an artist determined to become himself.
    — Sean Wilentz, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of strode
Verb
  • As Darrell Royal, the old football coach at Texas once said … one of his players pranced into the end zone and started beating on his own chest.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    — Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
Definition of pranced
Verb
  • At last Sun Ra sashayed onstage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Dancing With the Stars pro Gleb Savchenko and troupe member Marcquet Hill sashayed their way onto Tuesday's episode of the long-running CBS soap as a couple of hip-thrusting bachelorette party dancers.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Feb. 2026
Definition of sashayed
Verb
  • Jeezy, Teyana Taylor, Jermaine Dupri, Usher, Swizz Beatz, Rihanna (who briefly out-swaggered Jay), Pharrell, and Beyoncé, backed by the Mayyas, a Lebanese dance group.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In San Ángel, those men swaggered around town, smoking marijuana and blasting banda music from their flashy trucks.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of swaggered

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“Stalked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalked. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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