coursed

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If you throw in the rhetorical brilliance, the heart and the boundless wit that coursed through his greatest works, his pre-eminence is hard to challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Overflowing rivers coursed through villages, sweeping away homes, roads and bridges and triggering landslides.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

As a boy, I must have intuited that what was foppish about Lynde, Reilly and Taylor coursed through me, too, even without the words to explain why.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

Gregg traces his fixation on the Western Flyer to his childhood growing up in coastal Georgia, where the sky was often coursed by contrails from Cape Canaveral.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Even when his visitor’s band lifted the tent flap, the silent drops coursed down his nose and fell on the parchment with regular ticks, like an ancient clock.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White