bop
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The curvilinear bop of a good and expertly undulating narrative lede.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The company says its "companion-centric" device can interpret human gestures and bop to musical rhythms, as well as take selfies and steady videos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
He adds a funky countermelody, reminiscent of Horace Silver or Lee Morgan, and remakes “Billy Joe” into a remarkable slice of hard bop, a 12-minute roller-coaster ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Children giggle and run as kilikis with soft foam truncheons bop them if they get too close.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
The children all look too tired to bop up and down, laugh, or splash at one another.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
In a sparkly gold dress, the 20-year-old floated above the pressure, bopped along to the music of Donna Summer and glided her way to stardom—and the top of the podium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Szabolcs Csépe, from Budapest, bopped to over 3000 songs and burned more than 22,000 calories in his quest to romp into the record books.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Deborah bopped from the cafeteria to another schoolroom, where another precinct was sharing the space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
As five women including myself bopped around the Upper West Side on that brisk December afternoon, we stopped by the restaurant Barney's Greengrass.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023
I bopped down the magazine aisle toward the back of the store, where the chips were.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
The band’s joyful energy was more suitable for bopping than brooding, and Mr. Casablancas’s detached and distorted delivery is distant from grunge’s anguished growls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
These bubbly creatures seemed to float by on the positive energy of the crowd, sometimes blithely bopping along, sometimes stopping to take photos with enthusiastic fellow inflatable-wearers.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2025
Musk, who was attending a Mar-a-Lago dinner with his mother, was caught on video bopping along to Trump campaign rally staple "Y.M.C.A."
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
Hundreds of high school recruits and former players milled about on the field, some bopping to the pulsating music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
Afros bopping, arms swinging, and feet stepping and spinning in sync.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
