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Recent Examples of glop
Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much.
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Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
The dirt didn’t look different to her: no holes, no ripped piece of lawn, but was there something growing in the mud glop?
—Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
What passed for salad—diced potatoes tossed with Russian dressing, or a half-head of doubtful-looking iceberg drenched in an indeterminate glop—wasn’t very appealing alongside traditional Chinese fare.
—James T. Areddy, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2021
His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
The dirt didn’t look different to her: no holes, no ripped piece of lawn, but was there something growing in the mud glop?
—Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
What passed for salad—diced potatoes tossed with Russian dressing, or a half-head of doubtful-looking iceberg drenched in an indeterminate glop—wasn’t very appealing alongside traditional Chinese fare.
—James T. Areddy, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2021
His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glop
goo
Noun
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Remove Sticky Messes A bit of coconut oil applied to sticky residue like that left behind on a jar after the label is removed acts as a natural alternative to adhesive and goo removers.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2026
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A lot of blood and weird vampire goo!—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Glop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glop. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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