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whip

[hwip, wip] / ʰwɪp, wɪp /






VERB
agitate, stir up
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He was expected to whip the White House and the chaotic president into shape.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Meta has been marketing smart glasses as a way to listen to audio, take phone calls, capture video and talk to its AI assistant without having to whip out a smartphone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

And peppered throughout the museum and its park and gardens are brand-new life-size bronze renditions: Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, Yoda and Indiana Jones, whip at the ready.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Another pressure putt from the pumped-up Ciganda on the 14th gave them a two-hole lead, the Spaniard slapping her chest to whip up the boisterous Dutch crowd.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

The light, airy butterflies I used to feel when I saw him whip their red flags, scratch the walls of my stomach.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Elena, who whips up a weekly performance report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Peppering the crowd with whips off his hips and crunches down the ground, Buttler brought up his century by pulling spinner Axar Patel over square leg for six.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Like many a cat lover, Baseman whips out a phone to share videos of his beloved feline muses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Scores of bare-chested flagellants with covered faces walked barefoot through the dusty streets of Pampanga province's San Fernando as they flogged their backs with bamboo whips in scorching heat.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

The air whips in and the sound of the city fills the taxi.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

But as afternoon winds whipped up and the seas grew rough, the boat took on water as they returned to shore and began to sink about 600 yards off Alcatraz Island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

He whipped his shot into the top corner.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I’ll never know whether that strawberry she fed me had some whipped cream on it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Gleni whipped toward him: “Come back, come back,” he said.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

She whipped around and met Brigit's angry blue glare.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

The sooty charioteer smiling a recognition, forced his unwelcome hand upon his brother of the brush; they then both whipt their horses and departed.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

Set it over the fire, and add the white of an egg well whipt.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

He'd seen a fellow cave right in under one on 'em, and come out as cow'd as a whipt spaniel.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley

Again in the Fourth Act, ——My messenger He hath whipt with rods, dares me to personal combat, Cæsar to Anthony.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by David Nichol Smith

In 1635 Thomas Petet “for suspition of slander, idleness and stubbornness is to be severely whipt and kept in hold.”

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

Reprieved, he dominated the strike and scoring in the stand with Cox, forcing the ball through the covers and whipping off his pads.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

A few walked alone, their faces frozen in shock, as helicopters landed every few minutes on a football field inside the town's military cantonment, whipping up clouds of dust.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

“Those trucks were really whipping around. We dressed a couple of stunt Kennedys who were placed around them to make sure they were safe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

I considered whipping the miso into cold butter, making a compound butter to scrape over oven-hot sourdough before adding tomato slices and crystalline hunks of salt.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

The wind soars, whipping my hair across my face and pushing a chill down the open neck of my shirt.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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