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Definition of lopenext
as in to hop
to move with a light springing step the jogger happily loped along, just enjoying the fresh morning air

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noun

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Recent Examples of lope
Verb
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 Perry has been loping around the world on this tour for four months. Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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 There is also more than a bit of repetition — scenes played in different settings, with different energies, props and clues, but making more or less the same point, even as the series lopes bit by bit toward a conclusion. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lope
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lope
Verb
  • Some of Coachella’s most elite attendees won’t spend their day at the actual festival, choosing instead to hop between the many exclusive day parties, powered by brands like Revolve.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Like any well-meaning grifter, Anna (Halle Bailey) seizes the opportunity to hop a flight to picturesque Tuscany after meeting a handsome Italian stranger with an empty villa.
    Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The following season marked a nice bounce-back, though.
    Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Merrill and Machado followed with singles, and both moved up on an errant throw and fortunate bounce.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The maneuver went so well that the space agency skipped two out of three smaller corrective burns built into the mission’s schedule.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
  • No amount of serums or treatments can undo the damage caused by skipping sun protection.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This is about the leap toward specificity, to diving below the surface of the most broadly appealing, easy-to-synthesize dishes — the ones, from any nation’s cuisine, that rarely make their way into restaurant repertoires.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And an unlikely leap to the second seed would give the Knicks home-court advantage in a potential second-round matchup against the Celtics.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026

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“Lope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lope. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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