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coursed

  • past participle
    of course.
    course
    noun
    a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • past tense form
    of course.
    course
    noun
    a direction or route taken or to be taken.

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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

It's been three years now, but the 35-year-old school teacher has no trouble recalling the "pure shock" that coursed through when she and partner Kris Ventura, 33, opened the page.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

Then she had to take sweet tea off the menu at her roadside snack shop as saltwater coursed out of her faucets.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

In the veins of turtles coursed a sweet lassi that had to be drunk as soon as it spurted from their necks, because it coagulated in less than a minute.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel