bop
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He even includes a track “For Fans” that is, as advertised, the most pop-friendly bop across the 37-minute runtime.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Many fans discovered her via the track “new friends,” an honest and lighthearted bop about not wanting to be friends with an ex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 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
Children giggle and run as kilikis with soft foam truncheons bop them if they get too close.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
His shoulders are always back, and he has this bop that I know he must've practiced for years to perfect.
From "When I Was the Greatest" 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
For years, Justine Lupe bopped back and forth between Los Angeles and New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 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
When they were finished, they put down their pencils and bopped bright yellow hotel bells.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Iran is no bastion of free expression, in other words, which anyone bopping to those raps about enacting revenge on “the Baal-worshipping Epstein crew” must remember.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
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
The aunties seemed genuinely delighted, bopping along to Bruno Mars as if this were the triumph of civic joy they had been waiting for since Election Day.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 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
Came bopping down the street like it wasn't raining.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
