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[klip] / klɪp /




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The following screen highlights companies that have grown sales at a high clip while managing to improve their gross profit margins and operating margins, which are underlying measure of profitability.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Her reputation as Clark’s right-hand and enforcer spread along with the viral clip.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

In one of those calls, she mentioned the clip and said, “Can I send it to you or get it in front of your eyes?,” and he said sure.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

The promotional clip, shared across the council's various social media accounts, generated many comments criticising the former Daily Show host for promoting South Africa but failing to call out xenophobic attitudes.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

I said, brushing down my dress and adjusting the clip in my hair, which was coming loose.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

We ate vegan pizza and clipped on sequined cat ears.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

She has never clipped her children’s toenails—too anxious for that, she said, so the nanny handles it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

And Archer calmly clipped the winning runs from the final ball of the 19th over to put England ahead going into the third match of the series at Trent Bridge on Tuesday.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

My daughter is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Clover, and for the past couple of months, she’s had clipped to her collar an A.I. communication device known as the PetPhone.

From Slate Jun. 20, 2026

After he has gone through all the forms, he leans forward and addresses Apa in a clear, clipped voice.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

On the fourth pitch of the at-bat, Yamamoto turned to his splitter for the first time, barely clipping the inside edge of the strike zone.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2026

Right now, her favorite is the Nopal Cactus candle, which she made using a clipping from an employee’s yard.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

The horse then bolted, before clipping another carriage and toppling over, footage showed.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

Talarico recently said some of his past comments “missed the mark,” and he accused Paxton of “intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption.”

From Salon Jun. 17, 2026

For years she had read The Welch Daily News only for the obituaries and black-bordered memorial notices, clipping and saving her favorites.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

The Gate off its Hinges; the Stone Balls of the Pillars overthrowne, the great Bell stolen, the clipt Junipers grubbed up, the Sun-diall broken!

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning

The 11th we sailed E. by S. and 3 leagues from shore we had only 5 fathoms water, all the wood along shore being as even as if it had been clipt by gardeners sheers.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

Round the house there are meadows, and a large old-fashioned kitchen garden, and a small dark flower-garden, with clipt hedges and straight walks, quite in the old fashion.

From John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

Avenues must be cut down or disregarded; the groves, the alleys, the formal beds, the terraces, the balustrades, the clipt hedges must be swept away as things intolerable.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by John D. Sedding

Saturday, the 2nd May, was practically the last day clipt money was received by the exchequer.

From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe




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