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clip

[klip] / klɪp /




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The clip was reshared with the awkward theme music from “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the HBO comedy in which Hines played Larry David’s long-suffering wife.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Rashford replied to the clip in a post on X, saying: "Thanks, Jamie. It would be great to be able to get my head down and play football without my name being mentioned every day."

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

It’s that after you clip this up, it will have millions and millions of views across the internet.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

In fact in the case of the 2012 Lucasfilm purchase, Disney was buying back stock at such a clip that its total shares outstanding dropped that year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

If I lock it up, it’ll just stay there at the side of the bridge, as evidence, and they’ll clip the lock or saw through the chain after a while.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

He held up on a curveball from Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola that clipped the bottom of the strike zone.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 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

As the lines between podcasts, video and traditional talk shows have blurred, and every hot take gets clipped and spread across the internet, Charlamagne’s approach maximizes the current moment in media.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 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

The rain came almost at the exact spot where the crack was that had clipped her the day before.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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

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

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

My brother pulls the clipping from the envelope.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

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

Somewhere in the garden a little sardonic laugh was clipt to silence.

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

"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




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