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  • verb Present participle of stride.

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Examples

  • LOS ANGELES (AP) - As purple-and-gold streamers rained down, Lamar Odom shook his head in approval, Derek Fisher caressed the game ball against his chest and Kobe Bryant clapped his hands before striding from the floor.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • At Climate Counts, we have looked at three of the largest brewers, and discovered SAB Miller is, in our words, "striding" toward an ever-deepening commitment to climate protection, while Molson, for example, still has some work to do.

    Gary Hirshberg: I Don't Know What Tomorrow Holds, But I Know Who Holds Tomorrow 2008

  • Corporations are rated as "striding" if they receive 50 or more points, "starting" if they receive 13-49 points and "struck" if they receive 12 or fewer points.

    GreenBiz.com Green Business News 2009

  • In terms of piano technique, Hyman-aided by, as he acknowledges, the editing capabilities of the reproducing piano-is actually superior to Waller, and the Bösendorfer's powerful bass register provides an impressive highlighting of the "striding" left hand.

    Stereophile RSS Feed 2009

  • [TR: illegible handwritten word above 'striding'] a horse and setting out through all kinds of weather. "

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • A small tribute here to departed sexists: the Keys-Gray template – overbearing, thick-necked men striding around a TV studio with the kind of corporate menace normally associated with elite freelance torturers – may not be to everyone's taste.

    Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay 2011

  • “Come on,” Sebastian said, striding through the now empty room.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • He dismissed her again by striding forward to where Mason was playing with rocks.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • He'd begged to be taken along, to see the mustered ranks of soldiers striding past in real life, to feel the rumble of massed fighting machines through the soles of his boots.

    Excerpt: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld 2009

  • I always think of those lines in the Wallace Stevens poem “The Idea of Order at Key West”: “Then we,/As we beheld her striding there alone,/Knew that there never was a world for her/Except the one she sang and, singing, made.

    Carolyn Turgeon - An interview with author 2010

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