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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clop-clopped
sputtered
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But Brown has seemed to often be frustrated by his role in the team’s offense, which continued last fall as his production dipped and the offense as a whole sputtered.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Apr. 2026 -
Judge Dredd has two movies of varying quality, but attempts to follow the 2012 version with a TV show appear to have sputtered out.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Clop-clopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clop-clopped. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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