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Recent Examples of clap
Noun
In burlesque, the audience is enthusiastic and cheers and claps throughout, giving each performer a lot of support. Colleen Bidwill, Mercury News, 16 June 2025 Countless videos have been posted online about clap boxes, showing guests having their magical minute of fame or trying to mess with the cast by going in and out of the box over and over again. Nicholas Kobe, People.com, 6 July 2025
Verb
Bloom responded to the post with a series of clapping emojis, per the Instagram account, @commentsbycelebs. Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 Aug. 2025 Once their buffet was laid out — within the frame of a camera aiming down on the table — videographer Keisuke Iwasaki stepped between them and clapped his hands like a clapperboard. Ethan Wolin updated July 26, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for clap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clap
Noun
  • The images are all heavily filtered, as on early Instagram, and everyone in them has bangs.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Micro bobs are just one mini trend celebs are loving lately: Micro French manicures and micro bangs are also popular with stars like Jennifer Lopez and Miley Cyrus.
    Lina-Marie Baatz, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The wolf was quite literally at the door of the blue house on Highway 49 in Sierra County, tearing apart an elk on the front porch as the college-age son of the owner sat alone inside, listening to the thumps and snarls and hoping the latch was secure.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson give this team just enough thump to be dangerous.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • Read more: Trump’s penalty threat puts India in a bind over Russian oil Trump has slapped steep tariffs on India.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Some claim the male victim slapped one of the perpetrators before the fight, sparking the beatdown.
    Julia Bonavita , Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The company was a poster child of China’s property boom in the 2010s, but its collapse beginning in 2021 came to embody the sector’s woes that fueled wider economic strain.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • One example is Opendoor Technologies, the real estate fintech whose stock hit nearly $40 a share in February 2021, during the last meme stock boom.
    Sarah Whitmire, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The expiration of the enhanced subsidies will also deal a major blow to Covered Connecticut, a program that provides no-cost exchange plans to residents who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but still earn 175% or less than the federal poverty level.
    Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Postal Savings Bank, established in 1911, softened the blow of the Great Depression for millions, before being killed by the big banks in 1967.
    Mark Dimondstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • At one point, an overhead bin popped open and a few unbuckled passengers smacked their head on the ceiling.
    Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Sitting down with IndieWire, smack in the middle of their getting ready process for World of Wonder’s FYC Pride Event on June 6 in Los Angeles, Season 17 queens Onya Nurve and Jewels Sparkles said the key to harnessing that legacy was having fun.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Soderstrom surpassed All-Star slugger Brent Rooker for the team lead with 71 RBI with the blast.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Clairton resident Amy Sowers was sitting on her porch, located less than a mile from the plant, and felt her house shake from the blast.
    Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Alas, the captive here also ended with a thud and a bloody mess on the pavement.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Brendan McDermid | Reuters Wall Street ended a busy week of earnings, economic data and policy decisions with a thud, as a weak jobs report renewed concerns about the health of the U.S. economy in the face of President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariff policy.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2025

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“Clap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clap. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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