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Example sentences for: pounce

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It's possible, of course, that BellSouth has had its eye on Sprint all along, and was just getting ready to pounce when MCI WorldCom beat it to the punch.
This means the army learned from its mistake in the 1994-96 war, when a mad dash for the city's center allowed rebels to surround and pounce on the Russians, all three papers explain.
The people trapped in the CAPM are assumed to apply the equations provided by Sharpe, Lintner, and Treynor (for which only Sharpe won a Nobel) to pounce on the slightest deviation from equilibrium in order to get more . This greed is their most important trait.
The bared teeth are clearly human, but the feral eyes, looking sharply to the side; the curling upper lip; and the bristling facial hair suggest a cat-person ready to pounce.
Yet ABC, like all the networks, is quick to pounce when the lifestyles of the rich and famous, including politicians, go astray.