: something that is clipped off or out of something else
grass clippings
especially
: an item clipped from a publication
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Soon, the entire room was awash with clippings, each detailing a different duplicitous scheme — a depressing reflection of how scam culture was taking over my country, eroding our trust in each other.
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Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Friends are now sending me articles and clippings about cancer research and the promise of new therapies.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
In one room, drawers full of clippings, photographs and notes are devoted to each season, starting with the original Texans campaign in 1960.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
During a search of his home in the 1980s, police found newspaper clippings of the killings and bullets of the same make used in the murders.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Friends are now sending me articles and clippings about cancer research and the promise of new therapies.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
In one room, drawers full of clippings, photographs and notes are devoted to each season, starting with the original Texans campaign in 1960.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
During a search of his home in the 1980s, police found newspaper clippings of the killings and bullets of the same make used in the murders.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Clipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clipping. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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clipping
noun
clip·ping
ˈklip-iŋ 
: something cut out or off
a newspaper clipping
grass clippings
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