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clap

verb as in applaud; slap with approbation

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Yesterday, the US rapper clapped back at some of the complaints, saying "I make music for people who enjoy music. I'm not a Broadway act."

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Rather than churning out content, TKO’s ambition is to create “a great user experience” and he cites the example of Tiger Woods when he first began playing golf, and people clapped when he won.

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A clap echoes into a booming blast of thunder.

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The audience roared and clapped, and she made her way in the darkness to the back of the theater.

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“Remember, a sound education is the very best present of all,” Miss Charlotte Mortimer, the headmistress, would say, clapping her hands to signal an end to the festivities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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