clipped
Example Sentences
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“It was tricky. I was moving fast, clipped the eighth hurdler and lost my balance. That’s never happened to me before.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
From social media posts clipped from livestreamed events with the astronauts to an extraordinary portfolio of celestial photographs, viewers caught an eyeful of Artemis II.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
But even if the opinion is written in the clipped vocabulary of habeas review, the stakes are larger than that language suggests.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Police earlier this month released body camera footage capturing the aftermath of the incident involving Woods, showing the golfer after his vehicle clipped a truck and rolled over.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
His voice was suddenly clipped, terse, as if what he was about to say made him angry.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Vocabulary lists containing clipped
"Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou
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