0 to jump or move quickly in order to catch or take hold of something: --
1 to attack suddenly, esp. by jumping or flying down to catch or take hold of something or someone: --
The media will have pounced and alarm and despondency will be created along with a great deal of cost.
Now, however, the whole country is at risk in having this pounce-back operation performed upon it.
They allow the delivery to take place in order to discover to whom they are going, and then they pounce and arrest that person.
They have been constantly out over the sea, waiting to pounce upon enemy warships and shipping.
Such a lapse is offensive to other employers who have been pounced on severely for defects in their administration of pay-as-you-earn.
He was quick to pounce on anyone who dared to mispronounce the name of his beloved constituency, which is of course pronounced "langbath".
In the guise of stewards, the blackshirts were there to pounce quickly, and there was little evidence of the spirit of forbearance.
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.
