bop
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The company says its "companion-centric" device can interpret human gestures and bop to musical rhythms, as well as take selfies and steady videos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
He adds a funky countermelody, reminiscent of Horace Silver or Lee Morgan, and remakes “Billy Joe” into a remarkable slice of hard bop, a 12-minute roller-coaster ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Carpenter closed, as she always does, with “Espresso,” and if you’d assumed that by now this breezy electro-pop bop would inevitably have lost some of its fizz, think again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
Children giggle and run as kilikis with soft foam truncheons bop them if they get too close.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Chris was walking up the block toward me, his giant umbrella now being used as a cane to put some extra cool in his bop.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
In a sparkly gold dress, the 20-year-old floated above the pressure, bopped along to the music of Donna Summer and glided her way to stardom—and the top of the podium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Szabolcs Csépe, from Budapest, bopped to over 3000 songs and burned more than 22,000 calories in his quest to romp into the record books.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
She says that gun owners “are bopped over the head constantly with safety,” from all parts of the gun industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
As five women including myself bopped around the Upper West Side on that brisk December afternoon, we stopped by the restaurant Barney's Greengrass.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023
Grace bopped up the hall to Mr. Lyons’s homeroom.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
It’s hard to disagree that the current system, with quarterbacks bopping from campus to campus like jam bands and 26-year-olds lining up against 18-year-olds, needs revision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
I travel a fair amount, and after I graduated from college, I spent months bopping around various European cities before landing in Amsterdam a couple of years ago.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026
Radiating energy in everything he does, even if it’s just bopping to the 1990s R&B girl group Xscape while getting off the bus, Lawrence appeared eager to make the most of this final college chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
I like to think of this as the "Little Bunny Foo Foo" method, because it's like you’re scooping up all the people and bopping them on the head.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2024
Lu's mom, who'd been talking to my mom, was now bopping over with a Tupperware full of orange slices.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
