looping
Example Sentences
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Instead of flying straight to Mars, the spacecraft are currently looping around a point in space about a million miles from Earth known as Lagrange point 2.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
Amid a looping vocal recording, Blake declares distortedly, “I’d rather you choose me.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Burden’s “Metropolis II,” perennially on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a dizzying, looping track for toy cars that zoom between shiny skyscrapers.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
Gentzen, a serving member in the Australian army, began to tire in round five and sustained a cut to her right cheek when a looping left landed flush.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
Lyddie demonstrated—her powdered fingers pinching, looping, slipping, pulling—all in one fluid motion that magically produced a healed warp thread with no hint of a lump to betray the break.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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