loop
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“Each side’s response reinforces the other side’s threat perception,” Lee said, and that loop remains hard to manage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Ukrainian Ministry of Defense rules require keeping humans in the loop for “combat” decisions, meaning that humans verify targets in the “final stages of interception.”
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
In a way, all this has been building for a decade in a closed loop of X, podcast and Substack discussions, albeit a closed loop involving millions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Technology, though, has improved rapidly in this area and more modern facilities use a closed loop of water, similar to that in domestic central heating systems.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“And oopsie, whoopsie, here comes the TOT,” Penelope sang, swinging the loop of twine ’round and ’round above herself like a lasso.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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The venom peptides that snakes and snails use are built as closed loops, which is what lets them survive intact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
A lack of distributions and write-offs reduces available funds that underpin economic activity, creating adverse feedback loops.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The new Whigs record is a strong collection of material that stands solidly amongst the existing catalog of v2 Whigs albums, with big rockers, piano ballads, and tape loops neatly nestled against guitar feedback.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Then, I start with loops around the edges and work my way in,” he continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Instead, he wanders through pathways and concourses and walks in loops around the courtyard with Marco in tow, who is taking notes whenever Chandresh finds something to comment upon.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Tucker then looped a single into no-man’s land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
After getting as close to the White House as security checkpoints would allow, I looped back toward the Capitol building.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Humeau's work examines the history of the earth and imagined future worlds via sculptures that include references to specific natural species and are accompanied by a looped cycle of light and sound.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
“We’re already familiar with the original Love Island series, so I think it’s just lighting up that part of people’s brains, and then they just get looped in,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
He slept in a tight ball, his tail looped, wings hugging his round body.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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After the opening run of songs, she hushes the audience and spends two minutes looping her voice.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
A rare looping trail of fossilized footprints in Colorado is giving scientists a detailed look at how a giant dinosaur moved 150 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
That left open the possibility that sprinklers with more complicated forms, including the curved and looping tubes found in silly sprinklers, might behave differently.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Quijada and Robinson invite us into the process of making their musical, constructing the show’s soundscape and musical score in real time by recording musical phrases into a looping station and layering in sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was a whipping movement, an abrupt snap, and in a looping, swinging motion the Frog slipped back around and up and took the main force of the pressure wave from the tanker bow-on.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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