Definition of "stride" []

• To walk with long steps, especially in a hasty or vigorous way. (verb-intransitive)
• To take a single long step, as in passing over an obstruction. (verb-intransitive)
• To stand or sit astride; straddle. (verb-intransitive)
• To walk with long steps on, along, or over: striding the stage. (verb-transitive)
• To step over or across: stride a brook. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I suppose he means by this two things: that these great movements of our modern life are not any evidence of a permanent advance, and that our whole structure may tumble into a heap of incoherent sand, as systems of society have done before; and, again, that it is questionable if, in what we call a stride in civilization, the individual citizen is becoming any purer or more just, or if his intelligence is directed towards learning and doing what is right, or only to the means of more extended pleasures."
• "The marketplace appeared to take in stride headlines which blurb lender CIT Group Inc. filed for failure protection upon Sunday after a debt-exchange suggest to bondholders failed."
• "Joan takes the social changes of the 1960s in stride, attempting to accomodate herself to them, but Richard does so with great reluctance, sometimes out of jealousy that Joan's increased activism is taking her away from him, and frequently lashing out because of it."