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gallop

verb as in bolt, race with slight jumping motion

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She is a supremely balanced runner with a galloping stride, a silken swerve and the daring to put them to use on the biggest stage.

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These demons gallop through the country on horseback, eagerly waging war with sanity, facts and anyone who scares them — which is pretty much the whole world.

From Salon

It had been a promising start from the Lions, who galloped into a commanding lead and looked as if they were going to steamroll their opponents.

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Growth galloped, but the rich became the biggest beneficiaries, growing even richer as inequality reached gaping proportions.

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Her earliest hits — a dreamy arrangement of the old standard “Who’s Sorry Now?,” the cheerfully silly “Stupid Cupid” and the galloping “Lipstick on Your Collar” — fit neatly into the emerging genre’s lighter side.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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