maneuver
noun
a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
maneuvers
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pluralof maneuver.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof maneuver (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
maneuvernouna planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
Example Sentences
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The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
A major part of the challenge was generating enough useful training data to teach the policy how to handle aggressive maneuvers without creating an unnecessarily large data set.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Listen to how nimbly Perry maneuvers some very tricky intervals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Go-arounds are routine maneuvers pilots perform to redo landing attempts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
My father ducked maneuvers by taking a test.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
