cleped

past tense of clepe, archaic

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Verb
  • The Republican two-term president tapped Attorney General Pam Bondi to take temporary command of DC's police department and named Terry Cole, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, the interim federal commissioner of the police department.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Now that she’s named her successor as Vogue’s top editor, Anna Wintour seems a bit more relaxed.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Advertisement Now, in The Pitt, his character is mentoring other young doctors—so much so that the estate of ER creator Michael Crichton has called The Pitt an ER-spinoff.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • A week after suffering a gut-punch loss to Nevada in Reno when two winning touchdowns were called back in the final moment and a tying field goal with seconds to play just missed, Sac State shook off early jitters to unleash a balanced offense in improving to 1-2.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cal Fire’s newest proposal for Jackson, dubbed AMEX, targets nearly 500 acres with a patchwork of small clearcuts and is silent on tree sizes to be felled.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The 20-to-30 degrees of galactic latitude, both north and south of the galactic plane, were dubbed the Zone of Avoidance in the late 19th century, because while there were huge numbers of spiral nebulae elsewhere, all across the sky, there were none found in or near the plane of the Milky Way.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Per Dumas’ filing, Weatherington had been on the board for 11 years and had already termed out.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Fisher Protocol, as it was termed, makes vivid the reality that nuclear war, so often spoken of in the bloodless language of tactics and strategy, is unimaginably horrific.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The system, labeled as EP95, continues to show signs of organization and environmental conditions are favorable for further development, hurricane center forecasters said in the advisory.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • At school, ensure your child’s inhaler is clearly labeled.
    Rhonda Conner-Warren, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hart worked in both television and on Broadway, with her stage credits including the revivals of The Heiress (1976) and Design for Living (1984), as well as the premiere production of Tom Stoppard's 1977 play Dirty Linen & New-Found-Land, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
    Vandana Pawa, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • They were both nominated in the Artist of the Year category,.
    Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Cleped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleped. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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