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rope

[rohp] / roʊp /


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Video on social media appears to show Patterson rappelling from the arena’s rafters on a rope, and plummeting fast to the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

One protein in the E-cadherin complex acted much like a rope.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

According to Jake, the producers and the studio heads were at the end of their rope.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Several hundred farmers demonstrated this month in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba against diesel costs -- one of them pulling a tractor with a rope.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

We’d planned to sleep like cowboys around the fire but forgot to bring a length of rope to circle the campsite.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

And in the neighbouring Kocaeli province, a stream overflowed in Gebze district, sweeping away a driver who was later rescued by emergency workers with ropes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

He says a well-trained system will know that ropes are not literally falling from the sky and use the English phrase "it's raining cats and dogs".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Rooms start at around $1,065 a night, and it has a kids’ club packed with amenities, including a ropes course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The tech rally could put surging bond yields on the ropes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Up there, years ago, men let themselves down on ropes to narrow ledges.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Three of the group - Bex, Ali Wright and Amanda Jean - work with local radio station Now Ayrshire, which is why they all ended up roped into this escapade.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

The No. 9 hitter roped it beyond left field for his first major league home run and a 1-1 tie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

He was roped into providing the group tele-healthcare years ago, but - moved by their plight - more recently became a broker and "delivery boy" for their temporary passports.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

In “Rooster,” Steve Carell plays Greg Russo, a divorced bestselling author roped into accepting a writer’s residency at the university where his daughter teaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

The roped pot stood out immediately; he ran a finger over the picture and ached to touch the delicately cast metal itself.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Discovery, roping in a multibillion-dollar corpus of film-and-TV studios, streaming services, newsrooms, movie theaters, and book imprints under the aegis of one man, nepo baby David Ellison.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Chaplin is a master sentimentalist, but not averse to occasional sharpness: The moment the film’s boatload of immigrants sees the Statue of Liberty is followed by an official roping them off like cattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

But she will not be roping in her mum, Liz, to help out despite the former world 10,000m champion being desperate to step in and lend a hand.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

Beyond roping off a large section of the store for e-commerce fulfillment, the company plans separate access sites for in-store shoppers, delivery drivers, and trucks, according to the proposal.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

The ship rocked violently as waves splashed high over the roping on the sides.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper


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