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whip

[hwip, wip] / ʰwɪp, wɪp /






VERB
agitate, stir up
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I’d want to whip the votes to make sure you could get a conviction before even starting down that road.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 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

Brisk of step and sharp of mind despite his years and the hot winds that whip the castle, he stood at the foundations of a temple dedicated to Haldi, the warrior god of gods.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Marco walked up as Chase was staring at a painting of a man holding a whip, dressed in a red coat, white pants, knee-high black boots, and a black top hat.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Elena, who whips up a weekly performance report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

And when the wind whips, the air reeks of a potent campfire — but no campers are around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

If all proceeds smoothly, as Orion whips around the Moon the astronauts could set a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before.

From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026

Wind whips hair across your face as you bend over to pick up the perfect bit of seaweed.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

Next thing I am crashing through brambles, patches of briars, being lashed, stifling my cries against the whips of wicked branches.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

“It’s a Tilt-A-Whirl, you’re getting whipped around,” Farley said during an interview with MarketWatch, referencing a popular carnival ride.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

For instance, it can be used as a food propellant for whipped cream dispensers or to boost auto engines, and is sold in canisters and tanks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Passersby whipped out their phones to snap photos, while others pointed in awe and disbelief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The billionaire didn’t address a claim by Macklemore that Kraft had whipped up support from other NFL owners whose stadiums host Sheeran’s tour to ice out the opening act altogether.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

And then she dabbed some whipped cream on the tip of the boy’s nose, and he did the same to her, and they laughed and gobbled everything up.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

I thought I was asleep in the Park, and somebody stole all my corn, and my mother whipt me for it, but I could not help it.

From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Solon Robinson

He mounted her on a bonny bay horse, Himsel’ on the silver grey; He drew his bonnet out o’er his een, He whipt and rade away.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

Syllabub 336 ——, everlasting ib. ——, solid ib. ——, whipt ib.

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury

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

So said, Snatching the hood, he whipt it from his head And lookt and knew the Ithacan.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett

"We weren't seeing that whipping back and forth here," Burdge says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Greens do not have a whipping system, meaning that MPs are free to vote as they wish.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Tropical Storm Lala is already whipping and soaking Hawaii’s Big Island and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

With no solutions in sight, oil producers have little choice but to try to communicate goodwill to the administration—and play the role of whipping boy as the crisis endures, observers say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

That Helena was whipping up a batch of babka?

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron


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