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verb

as in to sneak
to move about in a sly or secret manner a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden

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Recent Examples of mouse
Noun
Today, Colossal Biosciences announced another milestone on this journey in the form of a very furry mouse representing a tiny and cute step towards bringing back an iconic, extinct beast: the woolly mammoth. Eric MacK, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 Studies indicate that a single episode of extreme heat stress can cause long-term shifts in DNA methylation across different tissue types in mice. Eunyoung Choi, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
There’s no more wasting time mousing all over the screen just to adjust the size of a brush or to set a different value. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 With Signature Slim Combo, IT teams can mass deploy a single keyboard and mouse across an entire global workforce while keeping an eye on all the devices remotely using Logitech Sync to update the firmware. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
  • The Real Madrid forward reportedly referred to Messi and his teammates as cowards for retreating to the dressing room after Brazilian police attacked a section of Argentine fans.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The employees are spoiled and the investors are cowards.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Clean the gutters regularly and install double layers of ice and water barriers to avoid icicle and ice dam formation.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The ship now had snow on the decks and icicles hanging outside the windows.
    Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • As Christina has a conversation with her competition outside of their property’s garage, Lange sneaks into the house and records each room, picking up a few souvenirs along the way.
    Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The president was on his balcony, smoking a cigarette and reading the tablet, when Trent, wearing the excavation uniform, snuck up and hit him with a heavy drill bit from the library’s display case; Cal dropped the tablet in the hedges below.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But this was just the tip of her experiential iceberg and is followed by a private tour of the famous monument, guided by Dr. PBS Sengar, former director of the Archeological Survey of India, the agency that maintains the nation’s historic sites, including the Taj Mahal.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • This is just the tip of the savings iceberg, though.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Berlin is a city in a nearly hysterical hunt for secret Nazis believed to be lurking in the shadows.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Who knows what evil lurks in the inner computational and mathematical structures of generative AI and LLMs?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Verb
  • The living spaces get plenty of light from large windows and sliding glass doors at the front of the home.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2025
  • In February, the 30-stock Dow slid 2.3% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost about 5%.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.
    Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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