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Instead of spending the money on a pricey establishing shot of the car driving on the 101, Wain inserts a brief vintage clip of a ’70s-era taxi, humming along the road.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
In one viral clip, Bellingham interrupted an interview to plant a kiss on a smiling Haaland's cheek.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
In 2020, Burning Man—“a fertile, apocalyptic, hippie, neo-pagan freak fest,” as one news clip tells us—was canceled outright due to Covid-19.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Weist herself appears in a brief introductory clip before the performance proper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
I pull the lock-pick paper clip back a little, push it forward again.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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And Banda struck him out on a fastball that barely clipped the outside corner — and was initially called a ball, before a successful ABS challenge by Twins catcher Victor Caratini.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
Substitute Vladimir Smicer snuck another from long range before a striding Gerrard was clipped by Gennaro Gattuso.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
With clipped wings, they couldn’t fly far but they could still fly a little.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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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
Clouted, another clipping startup, raised $7 million last month in a round led by early-stage investment firm Slow Ventures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
He reached out and pushed the clipping aside.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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The wings of your ambition must be clipt: Your shame-faced virtue shunned the people's praise, And senate's honours: But 'tis well we know What price you hold yourself at.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Costumes and dress are rough and simple and of heavy woolens, clipt from the sheep and woven on the spot.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
She passed within the lodge, and threw her arms about his neck, clipt him and kissed him.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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 Masefield, John
Immediately below, stood the insulated and respectable mansion or Palace of the Bishop; in the midst of a formal garden--begirt with yet more formally clipt hedges.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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