GOOSE-STEP Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

goose-step

verb

Definition of goose-step

as in to trudge

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Recent Examples of goose-step In response, Herrera suggested the goose-stepping video was a joke. — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2026 Columns of soldiers were seen goose-stepping under floodlights with fighter jets roaring overhead. — Will Ripley, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026 As its goose-stepping military honor guards marched past and troops in combat uniforms and gear raced to their vehicles, jets and helicopters screeched past overhead. — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2025 Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda. — Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024 There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood. — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023

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Verb

Why trudge through movie history, turning over every stone and every wound, in a nearly 500-page memoir?

— Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
The ground level would sink, the water would seep up, and the horses’ hooves would trudge through mud.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of trudge

Verb

Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple.

— Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of stamp

Verb

After recording a safety, K-State accepted the football and marched 41 yards in eight plays, but had to settle for a 28-yard field goal by Rodriguez.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
Why is the team of robots working hard one moment, and marching in formation the next?

— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of march

Verb

Experts caution, as the Oracle announcement illustrates, that investors should tread carefully, as with any new asset class and especially one often associated with institutional buyers.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026
Videos also show survivors jumping from a rocky island and swimming to Coast Guard rescue swimmers treading rough seas.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of tread

Verb

The 5-foot-11 UConn product is Golden State’s leading scorer and has stepped it up even further in the playoffs, averaging almost 23 points per game.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026
At first glance, the surface appears solid, but stepping onto a quaking bog feels like walking on a vast, trembling waterbed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of step

Verb

The film is instead, in its strange and sometimes plodding manner, a call to simply sit and think about the contradictions of human character.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
An hour into the match, Villa Park — tense as the home side plodded against Leeds United a goal down — broke out in excitement.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of plod

Verb

That was the Senators finally taking advantage of the Devils parading to the penalty box after failing to score on Mantha's 5-minute major earlier.

— CBS New York Team, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
That is because Lula, Brazil’s current president and campaigning candidate, had been parading the centre of Rio just a few hundred meters away from the port.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

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