clipped
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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
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
He gently clipped one onto a flap of metal sheeting that he'd fused to the switch on top of the orb.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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