hop, skip, and jump

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Recent Examples of hop, skip, and jump With a hop, skip, and jump through the airport, we were quickly whisked away to Domes Novos Santorini, Domes Resorts’ newest property, freshly opened in April 2024. Jessica Vadillo, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024 Growing up in Miami, Florida, WDW was just a hop, skip, and jump away for my family to take weekend jaunts to the Magic Kingdom. Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 10 July 2023 Check out this list of US destinations that may be a hop, skip, and jump away from you. Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022 The residence, which has had a makeover by design studio Bergman & Mar, is located on 101 Cleveland Street—just a hop, skip, and jump away from Dickens’ first home. Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hop, skip, and jump
Noun
  • The 5-foot-1-inch singer with a very big voice is due to give birth to her first child, a girl, in two weeks.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The 1-inch block heel provides a slight height boost while remaining as easy to walk in as flats.
    Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But senior Biden administration officials saw it as a further step toward the dismantling of the nation’s constitutional democracy.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The first steps have been hard, but with a solid system and team buy-in, early-stage AI implementation is already a huge productivity booster.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For Oracle, the massive increase in OpenAI spending has landed the company within shouting distance of the trillion-dollar club, which currently includes eight tech peers.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2025
  • That, along with neither defensive tackle in shouting distance, gave Henry a ridiculously large rushing lane by NFL standards.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Hop, skip, and jump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hop%2C%20skip%2C%20and%20jump. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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