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On set, she shrugs off the restrictive moral code of her pop career.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Mr. Costanzo pays tribute to both men—as well as to pop artists such as Michael Jackson and Prince, who turned the falsetto voice into a sound that won millions of listeners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Thrasher” follows a number of country excursions by rappers and pop stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
“I never thought of myself as a critic, really. And certainly not at that time. I saw myself as a pop writer.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
CPU wags her hind end and looks up at Ray with eyes that pop out of her head, and her tongue hanging out of one side of her mouth.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Autumn leaves bring pops of colour to its stately buildings, which are set against the backdrop of the rolling hills of upstate New York.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Each Muse user gets a secure “virtual machine,” an unseen cloud computer with its own file system and a web browser that pops up on the user’s screen from time to time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Many of them will be using margin and will get liquidated once the bubble pops, which seems to be what happened in South Korea.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
Similarly, in the offseason it was frequently rumored that Manchester City coveted Crystal Palace star midfielder Adam Wharton, whose verve and creativity pops off the screen even to my untrained eyes.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
I stare at the fuzz on my jeans and pick at it and pick at it, and this whole string pops out.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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He popped up in foul territory to end the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
They’ve popped up in barns and on farms, in strip malls between an antique shop and an ax-throwing business and in churches, where lighting and sound for worship services is part of the curriculum.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
"I didn't want her to feel intimated and, within a few minutes, she popped up onto the window ledge on her side so she could get closer to us."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
LOS ANGELES—I was eating my second piece of hot honey and cracked black-pepper bacon in American Airlines’ Flagship Lounge when an employee popped by.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
But then he pulled out a coin, a Finnish five-mark coin, popped it open with a pin, and dumped out a tiny piece of microfilm.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Having cautioned last year about the prospect of froth in AI, Dalio has turned up the volume this year and begun to speak of the set-up as a bubble at risk of popping.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
AI models are popping up more and more across social media and advertising, but how might this affect body image?
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
AI images are popping up everywhere in food ads—and are grossing people out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Then we tumble into the realm of inspirational gurus and thought leaders, where breathwork and manifesting meet motivational speak, popping with familiar verbal kernels like “sparking joy” and “habit formation.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Nok kept her head bowed, but she couldn't resist popping one eyelid open.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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