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It ignores the women who have strode toward the danger with weapons, with medical know-how, with sheer determination.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He must have strode proudly along his cell as he put his praise and his scorn into imperishable similes.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

Alfred at the head of his army, strode down the column as Jupiter is said to have strode down the spheres as he hurled his thunderbolts at the Titans.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Warden, Ben W.

You have strode in upon my department for once, Mary Gilligan, and I'm going to put you out!

From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox