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She arranges four painted notebook covers together on her lap, forming a collage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

"She would just look at me. Even with all those tubes and machines attached to her, she would try to reach out, wanting to crawl into my lap," Akhter remembers, in tears.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

And yet his most zealous followers just lap it up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

He gave me a shy, hopeful little smile as he balanced his bowl on his lap, and it took me unawares because I was beginning to feel as though I’d left smiles behind for good.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

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

The Americans are looking up in the medal standings at host nation Italy, which is on pace for its best-ever Olympics, and they have been lapped by the Norwegian gods of the Winter Games.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Water lines went across, lapped the stones, and rippled back to meet each other, settling, to be dappled by the sun.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Williams congratulated Joint at the net before lapping up the ovation that came her way as she made her exit.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

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

Since then, Constellation management has kept most of its commentary on what’s ailing its Hispanic customers to blanket mentions of socio-economic concerns, which makes Thursday’s comments on lapping immigration raids interesting, if not fully illuminating.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Marcus and Javari and their dad hurried back into the hall and were stunned to see the floodwater lapping at the top of the stairs.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz