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whip

[hwip, wip] / ʰwɪp, wɪp /






VERB
agitate, stir up
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He was expected to whip the White House and the chaotic president into shape.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Meta has been marketing smart glasses as a way to listen to audio, take phone calls, capture video and talk to its AI assistant without having to whip out a smartphone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Another pressure putt from the pumped-up Ciganda on the 14th gave them a two-hole lead, the Spaniard slapping her chest to whip up the boisterous Dutch crowd.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

"So, anyone claiming that was spreading lies, misinformation, to generate clicks on social media, to whip up the community, wind people up and this is the upshot of it."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

His whip had appeared in his hand like magic, pulled from his belt in the heat of the moment.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Not having affairs, not engaging in departmental spats, not, à la Prof. Indiana Jones, cracking whips and cracking wise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

In our study, leadership included the speaker, party leaders, whips, caucus or conference chairs, and committee chairs or ranking members.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

And when the wind whips, the air reeks of a potent campfire — but no campers are around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Ride, its follow-up, is a darker dose of disco, punctuated with cracking whips and the thundering footfall of wild horses.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

A moment later, there’s something solid beneath my feet, and a cool breeze whips across my face.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Hot Chocolate “I don’t drink coffee, but I do like a Starbucks white hot chocolate with skim milk and no whipped cream.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The former Raith Rovers and Hibernian forward was one of the main Scotland heroes in Skopje after sending a deliciously whipped finish into the net in the 2-0 win over North Macedonia.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The billionaire didn’t address a claim by Macklemore that Kraft had whipped up support from other NFL owners whose stadiums host Sheeran’s tour to ice out the opening act altogether.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

I’ll never know whether that strawberry she fed me had some whipped cream on it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

To make matters worse, she insisted that Kermit swallow a concoction she whipped up for his throat.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

Lovelass, speaking of Morecraft, the usurer, says: 'He had a bastard, his own toward issue, whipt and thin cropt, for washing out the rose in three farthings to make them pence.'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

This is the period when the heart, the lungs, and the brain are being transformed, modified, whipt into shape for the performance of the duties of adulthood.

From On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd

The sooty charioteer smiling a recognition, forced his unwelcome hand upon his brother of the brush; they then both whipt their horses and departed.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

I thought I was asleep in the Park, and somebody stole all my corn, and my mother whipt me for it, but I could not help it.

From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Solon Robinson

In summer it may be done in the morning of the same day; but the whipt cream must be drained from the curd before it is put upon the cake.

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury

"We weren't seeing that whipping back and forth here," Burdge says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Greens do not have a whipping system, meaning that MPs are free to vote as they wish.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Tropical Storm Lala is already whipping and soaking Hawaii’s Big Island and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Summer can be especially windy, whipping up the waters around the Cyclades just as tourists flock to the popular islands of Mykonos, Naxos and Milos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Natalie started shaking her head, her long hair whipping out like snakes.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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