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If the strategy ultimately works in people, researchers believe it could potentially lead to an oral medicine or injection that regenerates cartilage and reduces the need for knee or hip replacement surgery.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
She's also been on Ranganathan's hip hop podcast, attended Milan Fashion Week with Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and she, Joe Lycett and James Acaster all appeared on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Beyond training, hip Chinese people wear tennis skirts and high-end running sneakers as fashion statements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
For the wistful, lovelorn loner, it’s an imperative reminder that being attached at the hip can still be isolating, no matter how much two people think alike.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
She’s holding her rosary, draping from a clenched fist over one hip of her printed dress, and that seems to carry some weight with my partygoers.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
But it was up against other, hipper shows like The Word, and a balding, middle-aged, middle-class man being risqué suddenly seemed less cutting-edge.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
“It was a little more diverse and hipper, so they were probably getting some pushback from older readers.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2024
Drone shows are in some ways the newer, hipper brand of fireworks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
Newer, hipper businesses have flocked to Chinatown over the last decade and turned it into a viral dining destination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
“It’s in Salem, which is apparently getting hipper by the moment.”
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
Even if I could try my hand at the hippest startups, I’ve decided that this summer I would try to understand how local economies perform, focusing on the small businesses that help sustain communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Instantly recognisable by their electric blue shop fronts, branches of LAP Coffee have become a common sight in Berlin's hippest neighbourhoods over the past two years.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
Since then, Outfit Repeater L.A. has garnered a reputation as the Eastside’s hippest trading post for “it” girls, creatives and fashion trendsetters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
In a way, they're clamoring to be "influencers," the hippest of all modern professions.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024
They’re the hippest cats I’ve ever seen, in nice pressed suits, looking sophisticated.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
Harjo hipped her to many indie Oklahoma artists who are featured in the show, including Broncho, Samantha Crain, and Jacob Tovar, who performs on screen in a honky-tonk scene.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022
The photographs showed fire within the house, just behind an entrance portico that includes rectangular brick or stone columns supporting a hipped roof.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021
Weiss had been hipped by one of his A&R reps to an earlier 24kGoldn song, the equally catchy “Valentino,” and heard in it the work of a gifted songwriter and charismatic vocalist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2020
When she told him, he burst out laughing, and then hipped her to the store’s true content.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2020
A somewhat later development was the hipped roof, in which the gabled ends were flattened, making four flat sides sloping from the ridge-pole.
From Remodeled Farmhouses by Mary H. Northend
Like many in the space, Herstand credits the long-running New York production “Sleep No More” with hipping him to the scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Of course, they saw it as the birth of Woodstock Nation, a giant step toward the hipping of the world at large.
From Time Magazine Archive
With one hand hipping his saber and the other curling his mustaches, he smiled at her.
From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher
Fred tore out a sheet and did some mysterious figuring, afterwards crumpling the paper into a little wad and hipping it behind the bed.
From The Flying U's Last Stand by B. M. Bower
Egad, I think the waiter must have thought me mad, as he heard me hip, hipping with "one cheer more," to the sentiment.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
