pounce
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Conversely, if your year-end travel plans are set and you don’t want to be stuck with a red-eye through Atlanta, pounce when you see a palatable price and move on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The moment to pounce came as Netflix fell 50% from a June 2025 high of $134 — the shares dropped to $67 in mid-June.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Octopuses are like cats: they will sneak up on their prey and pounce, and they want to do so as fast as possible, so that they don't become preyed upon," Tse says.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Lurking below the frontrunners are a host of superstars eager to pounce at the weekend.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
They look very mean, like hungry tigers ready to pounce on us.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
Tennessee’s flagship university paid $1.9 million to a professor it fired after Fox News pounced on her comments.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
A Wall Street Journal review of trading data shows how quickly some traders have pounced on the president’s online comments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Springboks had the luxury of bringing on Damian Willemse from the bench, but it was another replacement who pounced next as scrum-half Jantjies sprinted over in his first Test for three years.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
So the U.S., which desperately needed a fast, technical, two-footed No. 9, pounced, getting Balogun to withdraw from England’s U21 training camp to make a secret visit to Florida.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
He lay in wait as the shadowy creature came closer and closer, and when the time was right, the badger pounced.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
He has the vision and instincts of an eagle, anticipating, reading and then pouncing and attacking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2025
Torbjörn Törnqvist has just struck one of the deals of his lifetime, pouncing on the overseas operations of Lukoil soon after the Russian oil producer was hit with U.S. sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
Since his return to Real Madrid, Ancelotti has more than ever focused his side on adapting to opponents, creating chaos, forcing errors, pouncing on them.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
Lloyd turned over, and I was alone with my terrible, pouncing thoughts.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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