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Recent Examples of lope
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2026
One likes to imagine Paleo Dad loping across the savannah in hot pursuit of a wooly mammoth.
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Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
The latter has an easy lope made menacing by a cartoon-alien zap answered by other machines that caw like birds.
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Michaelangelo Matos,
Rolling Stone,
16 Aug. 2025
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Verb
With the enthusiastic Sun loping into your 9th House of Mental Expansion, curiosity is about to become your best guide.
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Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2026
One likes to imagine Paleo Dad loping across the savannah in hot pursuit of a wooly mammoth.
—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
Deep in the Singing Spruce Forest bear hunters unsnapped their rifles and began the long lope home.
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Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
The latter has an easy lope made menacing by a cartoon-alien zap answered by other machines that caw like birds.
—
Michaelangelo Matos,
Rolling Stone,
16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lope
Verb
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Imagine hopping out your back door to see two massive kangaroos trading blows.
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Berhalter tied the score again four minutes into the second half, latching onto a loose ball at the top of the penalty area and one-hopping a right-footed shot just inside the near post.
Noun
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These help deeply nourish the skin and increase firmness and bounce.
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Teams assume fast devices and 5G absorb it, but real users on mid-tier phones and weak networks bounce.
Verb
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Although Kel’s parents skip the opening night of his play, still in disapproval of his acting career, three of his students attend, leaving him touched.
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Open a window, replace the HVAC filter and skip the haul of seasonal sprays.
Noun
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Carr was viewed by NBA scouts as athletic with his 42½-inch vertical leap and as having a good jump shot.
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The 1970s were truly when science fiction cinema made astronomical leaps into the public's consciousness and catapulted out of the B-movie bin to become a respected entertainment genre.
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“Lope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lope. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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