stoop
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"I don't like to be like everybody else. I've often made the statement that I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That's the easiest thing in the world to do."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Then I tossed them in a bag and set them at the bottom of the stoop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
On one stoop, a man gently plucked a guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Soon they’d been talking for nearly half an hour, standing out in the chill on the man’s stoop.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
Under her feet the cement stoop was cool and slightly damp, as if a fog had just lifted.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
On the walk all along Fourth Street, she noticed families sitting on their stoops or porches and generally more people trying to beat the heat outside of their homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Harold’s people, like me, well they could be found daydreaming in cemeteries or sipping coffee on the stoops of abandoned houses.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
For the architects, the descending bleachers constitute a “reverse stoop,” another monumentalized form, this time of the brownstone stoops that are the front-row seats to Harlem’s street life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
His previous stoops on the tour included Jordan and Iraq.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Letting go of Chou and Geak, Pa stoops down and lays both hands on Kim’s shoulders.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
Ibrahim Said stooped to head in his first goal for the club before Elliott Watt capitalised on a mistake from Kasper Schmeichel.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
The name "chikungunya" comes from the Kimakonde language, meaning "that which bends up," a reference to the stooped posture caused by the severe joint pain that often accompanies the infection.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025
Time was running out when Dier stooped to nod a free-kick towards goal, but was instead kicked in the head by City substitute Nico Gonzalez.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
I stooped to embrace him and told him what I’d needed to hear as a boy.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025
Richard envisaged somebody young and alert like their houseboy, Ugwu, but Harrison turned out to be a small stooped stick of a man, middle-aged, wearing an oversize white shirt that stopped below his knees.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
There was no back-breaking stooping: Trimmers sat on benches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
“We’re fortunate to live in New York, where stooping is a thing,” Slocum said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Her single-minded dedication carried into her early years at Lake Taylor High School in Norfolk, where she often found herself stooping to fit in with other girls because of her height.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
Suddenly he stiffened, and stooping he gripped Sam by the arm.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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