stunts 1 of 2

noun

plural of stunt
as in feats
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness performs mental stunts, such as pronouncing words backwards as soon as you say them

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verb

present tense third-person singular of stunt
as in blocks
to hold back the normal growth of unfortunately, an unusually dry summer seems to have permanently stunted the tree

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Recent Examples of stunts
Noun
Rather than heroic, these costly and horribly uncertain stunts come across callous and cruel. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026 Between the huge practical sets and stunts, the matte paintings and in-camera trickery, the on-location filming, and a leading man at the height of his movie star powers, Spielberg and his team performed the filmmaking equivalent of wizardry. — Frank Deruggiero, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026 Against the Texans last week, Putnam showed the awareness in pass protection to identify and handle stunts on the interior. — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Proctor still has to learn to recognize blitzes and stunts, and Johnson still has lots to clean up technique-wise on his coverage. — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026 Zeek Biggers has had a solid camp as a five-technique defensive end, and has the potential to pair well with Zach Sieler, who needs someone athletic and savvy enough to execute twists and stunts with. — Omar Kelly august 23, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2026 But the attention on Cunningham’s comments, the contrived outrage over a fictional trans athlete draft and dumb stunts by former NBA players may have helped drive more folks toward watching the league’s games. — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Unitree, like many Chinese robotics companies, has relied on eye-catching stunts to improve its image. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026 And as Gurman notes, the service also has frequently served up stunts like Hanks-giving, a bounty of Tom Hanks movies that stream around Thanksgiving. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
The back’s minimal presence in the pass game also stunts his upside. — Brad Evans, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 The distinct work and life separation shown in ‘Severance’ stunts the development of both sides of the characters. — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 DiBlasi said that using AI in social interactions stunts emotional growth and can perpetuate feelings of loneliness and isolation. — Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026 That includes what stunts them and what kills them. — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026 Many leaders struggle to separate their emotions from their decisions, which is dangerous and stunts their growth. — David Nour, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stunts
  1. feats
  2. blocks
  3. suppresses
  4. dwarfs
  5. halts
  6. stops
  7. stalls
  8. diminishes
Noun
  • Why would Chinese companies invest so much money and time into creating robots that perform such athletic feats (and crash and burn afterwards)?
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The scholar of religion Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) noticed that many Vedic hymns praise different deities using the same superlatives and ascribe to them the same mythological feats.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of feats
Verb
  • The effect essentially gives Roman a parking spot in space, enabling engineers on Earth to remain in constant contact with the telescope, while making sure Earth never blocks its view of the cosmos.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2026
  • If the teams refuse to enroll the players who benefit from the TRO, those players could petition Hoffman to clarify that his order also blocks the SEC from punishing schools.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of blocks
Verb
  • Researchers in South Korea have unveiled a tri-layer composite solid electrolyte (CSE) that boosts ion transport and suppresses dendrite growth in lithium-metal batteries (LMBs).
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The world unjustly suppresses and gives pain to an individual.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of suppresses
Verb
  • That dwarfs United, which is scheduled for just over 8,400 and Delta which has nearly 5,200 flights on the schedule to those regions.
    — Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Today, the number of Americans who contract diseases from tick bites dwarfs the number falling ill from mosquito bites.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of dwarfs
Verb
  • The stay, granted by administrative judge David Gunter, halts data center development by Townsite Solar 2, LLC.
    — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Melting polar ice halts the North Atlantic Current, which moves warm ocean currents northeast across the Atlantic.
    — Peter Prengaman, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of halts
Verb
  • The metalpoint tool sometimes slips or skitters; the fountain pen sometimes stops working—though, deprived of vision, the artist is unaware, and keeps drawing the now-invisible line.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • There’s a tender, surprising moment of reconciliation in the novel’s final pages — the place where story stops.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of stops
Verb
  • That's more often what stalls things than any of the concerns above.
    — Benjamin Faes, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • This process stalls improvements for years.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Definition of stalls
Verb
  • Violence diminishes its victims, forcing everyone to play a single thankless role.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Once the journey time increases, the value proposition diminishes and the project is less likely to succeed.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of diminishes

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“Stunts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stunts. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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