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In a clip on his personal TikTok, Burnham, thanks to clever editing, appears to toss up a mortarboard hat and catch a builder's helmet, as he promotes technical education.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Most people badly time a front flip off a five-metre platform and get winded," she said in the clip.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
With Snell on the mound Tuesday, the game moved along at a fast clip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
His latest clip was posted days before he unveiled the Oaktree deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The first clip is of some guy, a few years older than us, running away from an officer.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Replays showed the left hand of France's Anais Bourgoin had clipped Werro's right foot.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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 Banda struck him out on a fastball that barely clipped the outside corner — and was initially called a ball, before a successful ABS challenge by Twins catcher Victor Caratini.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
The girl has long black hair clipped back with a silver barrette.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
The gardener was clipping away at the bougainvillea, taming the flowers that defiantly stuck out of the leveled top.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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"There was a lock of that black hair clipt from her head once when she knew it not," Sir John cried next.
From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
He clipt my arm suddenly, putting the value of an oath into his gripping of it.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
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
Woe to the sovereign who would have clipt their wings! then “tongues talked and pens wrote” monkish.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
A verdant screen may be made in this way, of the wildest and most beautiful description, which should never be clipt, only pruned, allowing the loose branches to drop over those that are taken away.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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