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But now I get it, because these proactive features more or less fell into my lap and made themselves useful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Here, marmots crawl inside vehicles to chew hoses and lap up fluid, sometimes disabling cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

My cousin tells a story: Several years before I was born, she was sitting on our great-grandmother’s lap at her modest home in a hollow in Eastern Kentucky.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

On a return visit, a guitar in her lap, she sings, “In my bell bottom jumpsuits with my rhinestones all aglow / I became an overnight sensation on the Johnny Carson Show.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Danny took the same seat on the couch as the night before and set the book on his lap like a comforting blanket.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

The rules say that the cars have to do one more lap behind a safety car before a restart once lapped cars have unlapped themselves, a process that was only just beginning at the time.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

“Investors lapped up mining companies, housebuilders, packaging providers, tech names, and banks,” he added.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

As the sea lapped around him, he balanced himself on a rock and cast a fishing line into the sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

Sea foam lapped around his ankles, rust and bits of wire.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

But there was still a mutual show of love as Fleetwood walked down the 18th fairway, lapping up a rapturous reception and showing his appreciation by thumping his heart.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

RBC Capital analyst Logan Reich notes Domino’s is lapping the initiatives that juiced 2025—the introduction of stuffed crusts decades after Pizza Hut and its arrival on DoorDash—with no easy levers ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

In the mind's eye you could imagine him stretched out on a couch with the sound of gently lapping water playing in his ears.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

If AI models begin lapping humans in most endeavors, then where will we find purpose?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

We stood on the shore, the water lapping near our feet.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys