as in to rope
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Recent Examples of lasso
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
Her deep investment has put that 10-figure dream within range of her golden lasso.
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Yohana Desta,
Vanity Fair,
7 May 2026
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
2 Apr. 2026
By taking out the clear nods to commerce and branding, however, Tecovas hopes its short movie will lasso consumers with a vibe, not a value proposition.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
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Noun
But deputies had a trick up their sleeve — a secret weapon that is part grappling gun, part lasso.
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Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
Her deep investment has put that 10-figure dream within range of her golden lasso.
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Yohana Desta,
Vanity Fair,
7 May 2026
Verb
Ashe is a rocket ship that can’t be reined in, and watching the restrained, comparably rational Coop try to lasso him is reliably entertaining.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
2 Apr. 2026
By taking out the clear nods to commerce and branding, however, Tecovas hopes its short movie will lasso consumers with a vibe, not a value proposition.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lasso
Noun
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The 59 year old paired her forearm-length top with a pair of wide-legged blue jeans, a gold lariat necklace, and a pair of oversized round black-to-yellow gradient sunglasses.
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Back in the ring, Okada and Takeshita went back-and-forth in an excellent sequence with a wheelbarrow back suplex from Takeshita, followed by a running dropkick from Takeshita and a fighting-spirit lariat from Okada.
Verb
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Climbers who rope up together learn from one another, with no strict hierarchy.
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Some of those startups started in the San Francisco Bay area, where AI dating apps are hosting parties, speed dating, coffee meet-ups and other in-person events to rope people into using their new service.
Verb
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Reading scores among high school seniors are at their lowest in decades, according to federal testing data, while schools across the country are grappling with how to respond to waning attention spans and artificial intelligence.
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Chatrie and the Supreme Court For decades, the court has grappled with law enforcement’s use of technologies to track the location of people or things.
Verb
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Sweden had a legitimate threat in stoppage time on goal, but Suzuki was able to corral it and avoid the late winner for the Swedes.
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Yet, Simpson couldn’t corral the baseball as two runs scored.
Verb
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Video of the incident showed the professor grabbing and twisting the arm of the pro-Palestinian student.
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As police tried to handcuff Sever, the Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office said Sever swung at troopers and forcefully grabbed at a trooper's duty weapon, which was secured in a holster.
Verb
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If not for Kevin Orie’s failure to glove a Ricky Gutierrez grounder leading off the third, which was ruled a hit, Wood might have had a no-hitter to boot.
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The funky bounce tripped up second baseman Brandon Lowe, who couldn’t adjust quickly enough to glove the ball that bounced over him, into shallow right field for a game-knotting single.
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“Lasso.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lasso. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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