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Crude oil moved from Los Angeles, where pumpjacks bob around the city, to a refinery near San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Smith, a 64-year-old who sported a blond bob, had been 16 when she got married in the 1970s.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

It prompts us, as we bob about, to reflect on our own proclivities and preconceptions, our patterns of reception and perception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Team GB capped off a disappointing bobsleigh campaign at the Winter Olympics with a "devastating" seventh-place finish in the four-man bob event.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

At least Finn only had to bob his head to the side and then back up again as he scrambled after them.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

So in 1992, wearing flares, a bottle green jacket and a yellow headband over her bobbed blonde hair, van Heel appeared on the hit ITV programme.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

On a recent morning, two surfers bobbed up and down on their boards directly in front of the new Club Med.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Muhar walked beside a pond at the Tejon Spreading Works, where ducks bobbed in the shallow water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

With her brown bobbed haircut and round sunglasses, Pelicot has become an international feminist symbol, inspiring a change to French rape laws and a public reckoning with the problem of drugging women.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

A sea of eager smiling faces bobbed around them, calling out names and waving cards with passenger’s names on them.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Wolff saw him bobbing around a go-kart track and convinced himself that the boy was at least worth a gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The TV cameras didn’t help matters, at one point finding a lone Chargers fan amid an ocean of Raiders fans, a blue dot bobbing in a silver-and-black sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

But the vehicle remained intact, bobbing along with the currents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Rangers were bobbing and weaving and finding their range.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

A short time later I saw in the distance the light from a headlamp bobbing along.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell