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stalks

  • present tense form of stalk (3rd person singular).

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Appeared in the December 23, 2025, print edition as 'China Stalks a Hong Kong Dissident'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Stalks from the pokkali later become food for prawns.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Stalks with bulb-shaped sporangia at the top grow up from the mass.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Thief of Memory Stalks a Colombian Family YARUMAL, Colombia — Tucked away on a steep street in this rough-hewn mountain town, an old woman found herself diapering her middle-age children.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2010

Here are new Figs too just gather'd, as you may see by the Milk in the Stalks.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius