rope
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“If it’s not from me, I didn’t approve it. Don’t rope me in with outside money,” she captioned the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
One protein in the E-cadherin complex acted much like a rope.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
The latter was in reference to a signature finishing move which saw him spin 360 degrees from the top rope of the wrestling ring and land on his opponent.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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
I thought so too, though I doubted they’d stolen the bell rope for plow lines.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Founding a business someday was long in the computer-science major’s sights—he purposely sought out internships at startups to learn the entrepreneurial ropes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
He scored all around the ground, clearing the ropes for 10 sixes and adding 21 fours.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
Markese Johnson said he never considered buying stocks until well into adulthood, when a childhood friend started showing him the ropes while Johnson was serving in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
He’s still bound to a dining-room chair by ropes of light.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Keen to catch the rerelease, she bought tickets with her AMC A-List membership and roped in two friends for a screening that boasted a mixture of laughs, shock, and dead silence.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
In the classroom, technology should be roped off from the teaching and learning of nontechnological concepts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
That investigation spanned seven years and roped in more than a dozen other automakers, identifying over 4,000 reports of sunroof fractures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Perhaps no representation of nightlife — other than Studio 54’s dance floor debauchery — got the same kind of media attention that the velvet roped, VIP-driven era of the early 2000s in Los Angeles did.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
She would have roped off the area if she could.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
Instead, he kept himself to a small space, but seemed to make big, amazing things happen, like jump roping over his own arm.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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