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strider

[ strahy-der ]

noun

  1. a person who takes long, swift steps:

    The town’s gotten busier—on Main Street at lunchtime, you'll see a higher proportion of striders to strollers than there’s been in quite some time.



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This is a lesson plenty of newer franchises have failed to learn, to their ultimate detriment, but that many others have also taken in stride.

From Vox

Schroepfer said the company had made big strides in “similarity matching”—which tries to determine if a new piece of content is broadly similar to another one that has already been removed for violating Facebook’s policies.

From Fortune

Ayton already made strides on that end during his second season — especially in the bubble — and now has the look of a player who should be average or better on defense for most of his career.

The GOP made strides this year, but it still has a lot of catching up to do.

Commercial companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin are making strides, opening what many think is a new era in human spaceflight.

“This is kind of a new chapter being written about how it is being done,” said Strider.

“I think Democrats to this day tend to have Swift Boaters right over our shoulder,” said Strider.

Viggo Mortensen doesn't fit my own mental image of Strider, but soon won me over all the same.

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