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swipe

[swahyp] / swaɪp /






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Timothée Chalamet, “Dune: Part Three” “Matt Damon’s version of Odysseus was the weakest link in the movie. It’d be marvelous to see John Turturro or John Malkovich sneak up and swipe this statue for themselves.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

One ambitious report published by the think tank floated the radical idea of curbing the credit-card swipe fees enforced at grocery stores.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Users swipe through recent purchases, rating each one as a “regret” or “worth it.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Teachers have also reported that 28% of children starting reception cannot use books properly, with some trying to swipe or tap the pages as if they were a screen.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

I swipe my CharlieCard and go through the turnstile.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

This update incentivized lengthy carousels of multi-image posts, especially with some educational content attached that encourages viewer engagement via swipes or saves.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

But he found himself rationing the meal swipes, starting the semester conservatively and ending with extras, which he used by inviting his friends to come with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

"You've only got a few seconds before someone swipes past the message you're trying to deliver".

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

The Mastercard of the IPO era was all about card swipes — not dips and taps — and “our main focus was cash displacement,” said Jorn Lambert, the company’s chief product officer.

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

Paddles plunging into the water in brisk, even swipes.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Medvedev swiped it into the stands, where it hit a spectator in the face.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

He took out his credit card, already loaded with around $8,000 of debt, and swiped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Now, Jenner is seemingly once again debating selling the home, with property records revealing that it has once again been swiped off the market, Realtor.com can exclusively reveal.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

When the EBT card is swiped, the fake reader scans and copies the information stored on the magnetic stripe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The upstairs rooms remain empty, but they are at least clean now, the spiderwebs all swiped away.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

This is speed dating 2026-style and Olivia, like many people we speak to, is here because she's fed up of "endlessly swiping" or as some describe it "app fatigue".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

But when Madkaur later came across Hagisufi while swiping through the dating site Plenty of Fish, he reconsidered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"People are realising constant swiping isn't actually leading to real-world dates, which only heightens dating fatigue," said Ryan.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

On a recent Friday night, he was swiping through a tablet, showing four different interfaces of reservation apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“She stopped texting us,” Audrey said, swiping on lip gloss instead of the lip balm she’d been using over the summer.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence


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