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[loop] / lup /




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But there are other stories, in the present day, that are tiresome for Celtic folk, stories that are playing out now, almost on a loop.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Exposure of French corporates and banks to sovereign bonds is relatively small, decreasing the chances of a domestic doom loop, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The thing that keeps the loop from starting is the same thing that traps you.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Autonomy in weaponry inherently means “replacing humans . . . in the loop or process or action,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The video loop made the Rotunda Reading Room feel as if it were a gondola gently swaying beneath a motley-colored airship drifting along on a warm breeze.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

For decades, the seawall has shielded multimillion-dollar homes and fortified the man-made canal that loops around the island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

The venom peptides that snakes and snails use are built as closed loops, which is what lets them survive intact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

A lack of distributions and write-offs reduces available funds that underpin economic activity, creating adverse feedback loops.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"I'm just trying to view myself as a manager, and I'm managing some people, and I'm also managing AI agents, or AI loops, or whatever you want to call it."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

I count the number of loops, then go from letter to letter and name to name, crossing them off until she ends up with only two: Carver J. and Shack.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Tucker then looped a single into no-man’s land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

After getting as close to the White House as security checkpoints would allow, I looped back toward the Capitol building.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Humeau's work examines the history of the earth and imagined future worlds via sculptures that include references to specific natural species and are accompanied by a looped cycle of light and sound.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

“The customer was just providing details when her husband came forward and grabbed the mobile phone started argument and cut the call,” a worker had scrawled in looped letters on a preprinted form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Alex checked that the quad was out of sight, then looped the rope over his shoulder and shoved the flashlight into his belt.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Arsenal fans of a certain vintage will remember former Spurs boy Nayim's long, looping winner beating the moustachioed stopper in the final minute of extra time to give Real Zaragoza the Cup Winners' Cup.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Look at those Watteau straps in the back, dripping with rhinestones and looping, swinging, amplifying the dynamics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

If the scale of any such looping is larger than the observable universe, we may never be able to detect it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Another untitled 11-by-14-inch print from 1979 records the fire-burnished remains of the looping Thrifty sign above a Westwood drugstore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Jerry let down the mainsail and gathered it in, wrapping it around the boom and looping a line around it to hold it.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt


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