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[klip] / klɪp /




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“I show the human body; they’re dancing,” Byrd says, defending her program in an archival clip.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

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

She captioned the clip, “Do I want to RV? Yes, yes I do. I’ll bring the string lights and tea!!”

From MarketWatch 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

“The paper clip idea was great,” I offer.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

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

Duane, who was already dizzy from the jumping, was now finding the hare’s quick, clipped way of talking equally unbalancing, not to mention all the twitches and tics that accompanied her speech.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

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

The brand in March used a clipping agency to turn its annual “Live Más Live” variety show and marketing event into a feast of TikTok snippets showcasing new menu items.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

The clipping had clearly come out of the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet, because the people in the black-and-white picture were moving.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

"Bessie, you're reet clipt and heeled for sure," responded her companion.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

The wings of your ambition must be clipt: Your shame-faced virtue shunned the people's praise, And senate's honours: But 'tis well we know What price you hold yourself at.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"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 Burnett, Frances Hodgson

And Keir, though his wings were now so happily clipt, still held his position as a traveller who had seen and noted much in his former wanderings.

From Uncanny Tales by Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa




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