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In a clip on his personal TikTok, Burnham, thanks to clever editing, appears to toss up a mortarboard hat and catch a builder's helmet, as he promotes technical education.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Getting ready to go back up to Canada and shoot some more episodes … I think we’re doing 12 this time,” Walsh said in a clip recorded for a fan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
His latest clip was posted days before he unveiled the Oaktree deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The five-second clip that Shaw posted "for funsies" went viral, and has been watched over one million times.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Someone had taken film from my roughly forty-minute talk and edited it down to a single ten-second clip, stripping away the context, putting the emphasis on a few words.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Replays showed the left hand of France's Anais Bourgoin had clipped Werro's right foot.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
My daughter is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Clover, and for the past couple of months, she’s had clipped to her collar an A.I. communication device known as the PetPhone.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
He pursed his lips under a neatly clipped moustache, which had been oiled with pomade to hold its center part, same as his hair.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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On the fourth pitch of the at-bat, Yamamoto turned to his splitter for the first time, barely clipping the inside edge of the strike zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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
The horse then bolted, before clipping another carriage and toppling over, footage showed.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
There’s my Polish dictionary—with the very top of Willa’s newspaper clipping sticking up from the pages.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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The arrows flitted and clipt amongst us like a flight of bats!
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
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
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
Down vistas long of clipt charmille Watteau as Pierrot leads the reel; Tabor and pipe the dancers guide As I read on.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
He clipt my arm suddenly, putting the value of an oath into his gripping of it.
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
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