loopy
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In his loopy 1957 essay on hipsters, Norman Mailer talked about the “psychic havoc” of living under the threat of nuclear annihilation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
A long, loopy pass from Finn Russell was intercepted in the Argentine 22m and the Pumas raced up the field, only held up by illegal Scotland defence that saw Blair Kinghorn carded.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025
Beneath those were strips of yellowing shoe patterns and a tracing of the actor’s foot with a note written in loopy cursive:
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Anderson last adapted Pynchon with the loopy, stoner-inflected “Inherent Vice,” but here he’s working on a grander scale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
He scrawled an enormous loopy signature on the note and handed it back to Hermione.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Once she stopped trying to outhit them, hitting loopier returns instead of flatter ones, each contest swung her way.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
But instead of a dry take on the investigation or a straight monologue like we might have seen in the Alec Baldwin-as-Trump years, we instead get something much loopier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Still, stripped of its loopier manifestations, the liberal rediscovery of states as sovereign policymaking entities could be a positive development.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2017
One Mississippi places Notaro’s autobiographical character in sharp relief against characters who deal with grief in loopier manners than she ever would.
From Time ● Sep. 8, 2016
Her letters had loopier tails than her own.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
The only Volkstheater production at Radikal Jung, it is quite possibly the loopiest and most entertaining German production that premiered last year.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
This may be the loopiest seasonal release this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2017
The result is a generous, achingly tender comedy that offers some of the loopiest, most wondrously inventive humor this side of Jared Hess.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2017
By contrast, the narrative conventions of Trainwreck even at its loopiest seem a little constraining.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2015
A romantic partner knows how to motivate, how to comfort when a grant proposal doesn't go your way and how to rein in the loopiest ideas.
From Nature ● Jun. 24, 2014
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