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mousing

verb

present participle of mouse

as in sneaking

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

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Imagine sneaking into a math library and combing through every mathematical text ever written.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
The Chiefs placed Royals at tight end on the line, sneaking him across the back of the end zone on a drag route.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026

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That dream came to a screeching halt six years ago, when a sinkhole tore open that revealed an old mine lurking under Hideaway Hills -- forcing more than a dozen families to flee.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Flanagan’s customary whip pans are here to surprise us with characters lurking outside the frame, but this isn’t a story with many external supernatural threats, and tension doesn’t build.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026

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The rooms Every single one of the 75 rooms is ocean-facing, with floor to ceiling sliding glass doors framing the view, and leading to private terraces perched above the mangroves.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
These twin trends—an aging Leninist system sliding toward one-man rule and mounting political inertia in the face of anything that might trigger social unrest—have eroded China’s governance capacity.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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