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Recent Examples of clompDuring a quiet moment, Mangione spun in his seat at the sound of clomping heels when two young women entered and took their seats in a row reserved for spectators.—
Tonya Simpson,
ABC News,
4 Dec. 2025 Its buoyant drums clomping beneath equally rambunctious guitar riffs hit like a scientific fact.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
14 Aug. 2025 These days, though, there’s no need to clomp around in heels.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
21 July 2025 Inspired by the artifice of playthings, Jacobs turned to 1960s paper dolls last February, and this season opened the door to the dollhouse once again with clownish, clomping platform heels that forced his models to walk with a Barbie-like gait.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for clomp
That number lumps new deadbot platforms in with much more widely used and established grief tech, like online memorials, counseling resources, and estate planning tools.
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Lissa Soep,
Vox,
17 Oct. 2026
Instead of releasing each film’s tally individually, the studio has been considering lumping the returns of all four movies together.
Key Takeaways Hot liquids and acidic juices may cause some protein powders to clump or curdle and can affect digestion or nutrient content.
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Carrie Madormo,
Verywell Health,
2 Oct. 2026
This explains why the isotopes are so well mixed rather than clumped, and also tells us that Bennu's parent probably formed not long after Jupiter did.
Plant-eating dinos that looked like huge, armored lizards left those footprints while tramping near the coastline of a vast Western Interior Seaway that extended into Colorado.
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Kristen Kidd,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2026
Days or weeks passed, but then the dog barked, the mail carrier tramped onto the porch, the mailbox clattered.
Resendiz finished strongly, sending Mazoudier stumbling backward in the final minute.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Oct. 2026
Munyon's Paw-Paw, an alcoholic beverage dating to the early 1900s, has been resurrected by two longtime spirits industry veterans who stumbled upon its unusual history during a family outing.
In fairness, Collins has been out and the offensive line is scuffed up, but neither of those things impacts whether the Texans can convincingly stop the Cowboys enough times to stay within striking distance.
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J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2026
White shoes were a school requirement, but mine were scuffed and gray.