pounce on something

pounce | American Dictionary

pounce
verb[ I ]
us/pɑʊns/
to attack suddenly, esp. by jumping or flying down to catch or take hold of something or someone:
The mountain lion pounced onto the back of an elk.

Examples of pounce

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By pouncing he could then reproduce the same drawing elsewhere, as many times as he liked.
Critics pounced on the novel for this focus on what was most "curious" and subjective about a physician's practice.
Within-species interactions were somewhat more common, consisting of displacements of feeding individuals by lunging or pouncing.
The playing is breathtaking, repeatedly pouncing on the impossible and shaping it into a compelling experience.
A computer will never understand, but it can be trained to supply a checking mechanism that will relentlessly pounce upon problematic patterns.
It looks like a delicious irony, and the enemies of global capitalism are pouncing gleefully upon it.
Bass centres the sound, rhythm pounces, and the record is happening.
The editing is refreshingly open about ongoing differences of interpretation but might have pounced harder on the considerable amounts of repetition between many of the papers.
In the guise of stewards, the blackshirts were there to pounce quickly, and there was little evidence of the spirit of forbearance.
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