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But if you watch the full clip from TMZ, he actually offers a small wave and a thumbs-up before being loaded into a van, although he doesn’t speak.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Mike Rogers, his Republican opponent, has seized upon a clip of his once campaign partner, Hasan Piker, saying in 2019 that he believed America deserved 9/11.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The comments from Newsom seemingly stunned Tapper in the two-minute clip, which teased a longer interview that is expected to air Tuesday morning.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The couple adopted a black Labrador retriever several years ago, which is seen several times in the clip.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
He had a buzzcut like his dad, and was using a paper clip to scratch into his desk.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Woods was involved in a March 27 road accident in Florida in which his vehicle clipped a truck pulling a trailer and flipped on its side while attempting to pass on a residential road.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Replays showed the left hand of France's Anais Bourgoin had clipped Werro's right foot.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He held up on a curveball from Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola that clipped the bottom of the strike zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
She has never clipped her children’s toenails—too anxious for that, she said, so the nanny handles it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
He wore a different face today, an older gentleman with dark hair and a neatly clipped beard.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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And to do it, they’re clipping some flabbergasting selections from their media libraries and pumping them out into vertical videos.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Right now, her favorite is the Nopal Cactus candle, which she made using a clipping from an employee’s yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He hit 30 off 20 balls before clipping Foulkes to a tumbling Daryl Mitchell at mid-on so Stokes will spend his final day watching his team-mates from the balcony.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Talarico recently said some of his past comments “missed the mark,” and he accused Paxton of “intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption.”
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
The next clipping showed a picture of my mother and brother and me grouped together in our backyard and smiling.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Then he clipt my hand and wrung it, babbling out some boyish brava that I made haste to put an end to.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
The 11th we sailed E. by S. and 3 leagues from shore we had only 5 fathoms water, all the wood along shore being as even as if it had been clipt by gardeners sheers.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
Saturday, the 2nd May, was practically the last day clipt money was received by the exchequer.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
From pricking ears to mincing feet She was all tense with blood and quiver, You saw her clipt hide twitch and shiver Over her netted cords of veins.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
The Gate off its Hinges; the Stone Balls of the Pillars overthrowne, the great Bell stolen, the clipt Junipers grubbed up, the Sun-diall broken!
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning
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