as in to trot
to go at a pace faster than a walk
dawdles to school but gallops coming home
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The Buccaneers season two is galloping towards a climactic finish, with this week's episode seeing Jinny fight for her freedom.
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Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Thanks to producer Steve Addabbo and contributing musicians like Kaye and Dylan bassist Tony Garnier, the music is a mix of chamber-folk beauty and galloping rock & roll.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2025
The strapping colt took to the track at Pimlico for the first time Thursday morning, galloping a mile under exercise rider Nick Merritt.
—Stephen Whyno, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
Ineffably, Renko’s qualities of solidity and rebelliousness bring my father back to me, and the whole 11-book series, set mostly in Russia (with excursions to Cuba and the Arctic Circle), is a galloping wonder, full of apparatchiks, spies, oligarchs, gangsters, and murders galore.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 July 2025
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Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Thanks to producer Steve Addabbo and contributing musicians like Kaye and Dylan bassist Tony Garnier, the music is a mix of chamber-folk beauty and galloping rock & roll.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2025
The strapping colt took to the track at Pimlico for the first time Thursday morning, galloping a mile under exercise rider Nick Merritt.
—Stephen Whyno, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
Ineffably, Renko’s qualities of solidity and rebelliousness bring my father back to me, and the whole 11-book series, set mostly in Russia (with excursions to Cuba and the Arctic Circle), is a galloping wonder, full of apparatchiks, spies, oligarchs, gangsters, and murders galore.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 July 2025
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Back in June, after being missing for one week, a zebra named Ed was spotted trotting through residential Tennessee neighborhoods and on the highway.—
Moná Thomas,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Rocky, arriving fashionably late to the New York premiere on Monday, trotted down the carpet line at the BAM Harvey Theater with infectious enthusiasm.—
Antonio Ferme,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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Set aside an hour for your first time, and take plenty of pictures to jog your memory of what’s in stock.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Visitors hang out all day and into the early evening, working on laptops, jogging across gravel trails, facing off at ping pong, corn hole and foosball.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
11 Aug. 2025
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Beam, a 2025 Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame inductee, said the distillery runs five days a week, pumping out more than 150 barrels each day.—
Olivia Evans,
The Courier-Journal,
22 Aug. 2025
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Peters was running for Colorado secretary of state at the time of the indictment, and attracted significant attention over the case.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Gallop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallop. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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