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[klip] / klɪp /




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“I show the human body; they’re dancing,” Byrd says, defending her program in an archival clip.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

But that hasn’t stopped fund managers from launching new products at an increasingly rapid clip.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 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

It slowed to a moderate clip once they reached the island’s shore.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

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

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

The object looked like a silver pen, clipped to her pocket cuff.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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

I know even without consulting my creased newspaper clipping who I’m looking for.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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 Lodge, Henry Cabot

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

Round the house there are meadows, and a large old-fashioned kitchen garden, and a small dark flower-garden, with clipt hedges and straight walks, quite in the old fashion.

From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony

The gardeners about London," says Mr Lambert, writing to the Linn�an Transactions in 1712, "were remarkable for fine cut greens, and clipt yews in the shapes of birds, dogs, men, ships, &c.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.

Thou hast clipt my wings for thy pleasure.

From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin




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