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The usual pattern is a reminder of the day's engagements, a clip of a speech delivered, sometimes an official comment around an event alongside the day's best pictures.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
In that clip from June 14, the possibility of paramedics performed CPR on an unnamed person experiencing cardiac arrest.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
In 2020, Burning Man—“a fertile, apocalyptic, hippie, neo-pagan freak fest,” as one news clip tells us—was canceled outright due to Covid-19.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In the audio clip from the performance, we hear Deputy Chief Investigator John Goldman explaining to Weist that he is essentially constructing a résumé from her answers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“The Inside Mobius blog posts have gone viral, and the clip of Layla with the Director, too,” Jake says.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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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
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Hilton, who cuts an unmistakable image with his bald crown and clipped English accent, proved himself as a polished communicator during the debates, skills honed by his years as a Fox News analyst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Her breakout moment came with Dhurandhar, the Bollywood action film whose soundtrack introduced millions to her cool, clipped delivery.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
I clipped Wishbone’s leash to his collar and we set off down the road.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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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
He hit 30 off 20 balls before clipping Foulkes to a tumbling Daryl Mitchell at mid-on so Stokes will spend his final day watching his team-mates from the balcony.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Polymarket’s clipping campaign paid to promote a video of Ross saying he could easily use insider information to trade on the release date of an album by Drake, a hip-hop star and Ross’s acquaintance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The horse then bolted, before clipping another carriage and toppling over, footage showed.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
He enclosed an old press clipping to prove that she had been legally informed of the divorce action by publication.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Here and there rises a line of pollard willows or clipt elms, and now and then a church spire.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
In this style laurel and box-hedges were clipt, and 210marble statues placed against them, 'to break the uniformity of the dark green with pleasant silhouettes.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred
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 Sedding, John D.
Probably he would have come to Swedenborg, had not his clipt wings spread for a new flight.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Back flew the bolt of lissom lath; Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle, Led the lorn traveller up the path, Through clean clipt rows of box and myrtle.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829 by Various
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