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in stride

adv. 1 (context idiomatic English) Without disturbing one's course of activities. 2 (context idiomatic English) Without emotional upset.

WordNet
in stride

adv. without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" [syn: without becoming upset, in good spirits]

Usage examples of "in stride".

Instead of leaping for her sister's throat, she should have taken her oversolicitousness toward their mother in stride.

Maybe his species was so accustomed to feeling others' emotions that they could take it in stride, however inappropriate the circumstances, but that was no reason he should be so indecently amused by her difficulties!

Andrew LaFollet and James Candless, who'd been with Honor long enough to realize that McKeon was one of her two or three closest friends, were sufficiently accustomed to his sense of humor to take it in stride.

But while the Lizards took nudity in stride, the last time he'd been naked in public was at a swimming hole when he was thirteen years old.

Along the way, he'd dealt with street criminals, serial killers and other psychotics, assassination plots, and treason, and taken them all in stride.

He tried to take the steps in stride, but he had not slowed quite enough, probably because perceptions of depth and distance were flawed without the thick lenses.

While Tom was inclined to share Alfie's reactions, Astro took it in stride, having been exposed to the dangers of wild jungles on his own Venus.

We Concannons just aren't sophisticated enough to take such things in stride.

Jean-Claude had taken Micah in stride in theory, but how would he react to seeing him in the flesh?