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[klip] / klɪp /




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But Skubal points out the missing context in that clip.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

A clip from a forgotten HBO original film, “Something the Lord Made,” starring Alan Rickman and Mos Def.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

It continued to show an economy growing at a modest clip, driven by solid consumer spending and investment in artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

BBC Verify analysed the 94 second-long clip, which showed the car driving on footpaths and parkland in Ormesby, Middlesbrough, with Saddington a rear-seat passenger.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

It’s a news clip of the protesters arguing with the counterprotesters in front of the Manor.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

We ate vegan pizza and clipped on sequined cat ears.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

With the noisy crowd falling silent every time he faced, Sooryavanshi clipped his next delivery, off Tongue, over mid-wicket for another six.

From BBC Jul. 7, 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

As the lines between podcasts, video and traditional talk shows have blurred, and every hot take gets clipped and spread across the internet, Charlamagne’s approach maximizes the current moment in media.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

I was lifted from the cage and felt the plastic collar clipped around my neck.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

He handed him a newspaper clipping about Roy Vagelos, the Greek American scientist leading research at Merck.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 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

I’d be tending my herb garden, clipping sprigs of fragrant leaves or replanting tender roots, then all of a sudden, a single tear would fall down my face without my awareness, surprising me.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

The arrows flitted and clipt amongst us like a flight of bats!

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce

And the leddy too, sae genty, There shelter'd Scotland's heir, And clipt a lock wi' her ain hand Frae his lang yellow hair.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

"Bessie, you're reet clipt and heeled for sure," responded her companion.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine

In some it is more, in others it in less worn, clipt, and otherwise degenerated from that standard.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier

So either kissed and clipt the other, and fair joy was them between.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge




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