Thesaurus results for MOSEYS

moseys

verb

present tense third-person singular of mosey

as in saunters

US, informal to walk or move in a slow and relaxed way I think I'll mosey on over to the post office and see if the mail has come in yet. He moseyed up to the bar.

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Recent Examples of moseys The biggest season 7 addition, however, is that of Clay (Riverdale's Cody Kearsley), a mysterious rodeo rider who moseys into town with a problematic past. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026

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Travis saunters over to dap him up through the cab’s open window, but this one has its own special, age-gap flair.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026
Bands perform as the peaceful crowd saunters, with the visual entertainment of beefy men cooking barbecue on giant grills.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

Definition of saunters

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When Denny strolls in, his parents figure out the mistake, their relief tested by the kidnapper’s insistence that the ransom remains the same.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Over the course of Next Gen NYC’s season, which ended this past week, the model Ava Dash grabs a slice of pizza on Fulton Street; strolls through the Seaport; and calls her father, the hip-hop mogul Damon Dash, from a bench at Pier 17.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of strolls

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Third place was Japanese director Sabu’s Arrested Memory, a crime caper about a detective with dementia who unwittingly wanders off with a multimillion-dollar ransom, sending cops and criminals on his trail.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
Perhaps most telling of all, Stone cuts the character of Carlotta, a governess born to circus performers who wanders through the play like a lost clown, origin-less, amused, and sad.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of wanders

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Everyone must be ready for anything, and as 100 becomes 50, the kitchen slowly empties and the competition intensifies until one cook eventually walks away victorious.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
The video starts recording the night before the fire when a person walks by, heading toward the back of the home on Stricker Street.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

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