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“Great Writers” paints portraits of the mewling kittens, dexterous mousers and lazy lap cats who happen to have witnessed the birth of some of humanity’s favorite texts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Would seat belts on the ride—in addition to the lap bar already in place—have helped?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
From Nickelodeon to having Rob Iler on your lap in “Bad Thoughts” performing an alien scat scene, your career truly is a wild ride.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
He apologised over team radio on the slowing-down lap, referring to it as "my call".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
She would stay there for hours, holding the golden crane in her lap.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
Amazon MGM Studios’ “Verity,” starring Anne Hathaway, easily lapped “Digger,” coming in first at the domestic box office with a haul of $32.6 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Sainz said he had "no idea I was trying to get lapped", he "didn't expect" Piastri to be there, and it was "impossible to avoid it".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Investors lapped up mining companies, housebuilders, packaging providers, tech names, and banks,” he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
The country was rocked by the Watergate fallout, but its citizens also lapped up the gossip — like Rovere hoped to do with what little tidbits made it to Woodward and Bernstein’s book.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
A gentle breeze blew over me, and the water lapped serenely at the riverbank.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
The stretch of track along the San Clemente shoreline has long offered picturesque views of sandy beaches and lapping ocean waves for passengers traveling between Los Angeles and San Diego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Even as some of America’s young voters are lapping up Mamdani, others are inventing artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
In college, my worldly roommate, her Exeter sophistication lapping my sheltered convent education, introduced me to the saccharin-infused Pepsi Light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
They based that on the fact that once Charles Leclerc's Ferrari had pitted and Antonelli was in clear air, the Italian was lapping faster than Piastri and Russell.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
The jets weren’t on, so the only sound was the water lapping against the sides.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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