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What was it like for you to have that clip from 1967 go viral over 50 years later?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But if you watch the full clip from TMZ, he actually offers a small wave and a thumbs-up before being loaded into a van, although he doesn’t speak.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Mike Rogers, his Republican opponent, has seized upon a clip of his once campaign partner, Hasan Piker, saying in 2019 that he believed America deserved 9/11.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The comments from Newsom seemingly stunned Tapper in the two-minute clip, which teased a longer interview that is expected to air Tuesday morning.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
“The paper clip idea was great,” I offer.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Woods was involved in a March 27 road accident in Florida in which his vehicle clipped a truck pulling a trailer and flipped on its side while attempting to pass on a residential road.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Ms. Indiana’s descriptions are clipped and sardonic, fitting for the perspective of a demon who has seen every vice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Replays showed the left hand of France's Anais Bourgoin had clipped Werro's right foot.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
An earlier angle seemed to show Werro had clipped her own leg before falling.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
She stopped yelling at the officers to turn to me, and I saw understanding flash across her face as her hand went automatically to her hip, where her own Chaos Cuffs were still clipped.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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And to do it, they’re clipping some flabbergasting selections from their media libraries and pumping them out into vertical videos.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
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
Mr. Castle was on a pair of stepladders clipping his hedge that divides his front garden from ours.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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 Alfred Biese
So either kissed and clipt the other, and fair joy was them between.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
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 Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Then he clipt my hand and wrung it, babbling out some boyish brava that I made haste to put an end to.
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
"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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