hip
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It forces your ankle, knee and hip joints to quickly adjust their movements, keeping them engaged and flexible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Specifically to my spine, right hip and my ribs.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
You need several weeks off to help an elderly, out-of-state parent recover from a broken hip or, in much better news, you have just had a baby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Yet he still must fight to obtain the hip replacement surgery he so desperately needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The title was largely honorific, but it enabled him to carry a badge and to lead posses, and he sometimes kept one pistol in his side pocket and another strapped to his hip.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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But it was up against other, hipper shows like The Word, and a balding, middle-aged, middle-class man being risqué suddenly seemed less cutting-edge.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
Pairing with Snoop helped put the fastidious chef and crafter in front of a younger, hipper audience, while the grandmotherly Stewart assisted in making the rapper approachable for a wider range of consumers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
“It was a little more diverse and hipper, so they were probably getting some pushback from older readers.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2024
Drone shows are in some ways the newer, hipper brand of fireworks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
Sometimes it’s a little hard having a mom who’s hipper than you are.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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Even if I could try my hand at the hippest startups, I’ve decided that this summer I would try to understand how local economies perform, focusing on the small businesses that help sustain communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Instantly recognisable by their electric blue shop fronts, branches of LAP Coffee have become a common sight in Berlin's hippest neighbourhoods over the past two years.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
In a way, they're clamoring to be "influencers," the hippest of all modern professions.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024
A day after ZooTunes unveiled its 40th anniversary slate, Seattle’s hippest urban festival Day In Day Out has dropped its own indie-centric bill.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
I went to all the hippest clubs and never had to wait in line.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Harjo hipped her to many indie Oklahoma artists who are featured in the show, including Broncho, Samantha Crain, and Jacob Tovar, who performs on screen in a honky-tonk scene.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022
When she told him, he burst out laughing, and then hipped her to the store’s true content.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2020
McClinton, Darius Rucker and Kane Brown, right up to Lil Nas X, who hipped the world to the Yeehaw Agenda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
I was hipped to the binary—and not just its use in making one into two, aka male and female.
From Time ● Oct. 11, 2016
Franky, you were quite right—it is as you say; so if I said anything when I was hipped, forgive me.”
From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn
Like many in the space, Herstand credits the long-running New York production “Sleep No More” with hipping him to the scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Of course, they saw it as the birth of Woodstock Nation, a giant step toward the hipping of the world at large.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When the hipping season began with our customers at The Grove, trade became active with us at Wichita.
From Reed Anthony, Cowman by Andy Adams
Fred tore out a sheet and did some mysterious figuring, afterwards crumpling the paper into a little wad and hipping it behind the bed.
From The Flying U's Last Stand by B. M. Bower
Egad, I think the waiter must have thought me mad, as he heard me hip, hipping with "one cheer more," to the sentiment.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever