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as in hoop
a circular strip cut the paper into narrow strips, and then paste those into loops

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verb

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Recent Examples of loop
Noun
It's then forecast to loop back toward the islands off the coasts of Africa and Portugal. Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025 Chip and Bradley loop her in to the Wolf River story — and there’s been some interesting new developments. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
Brooklinen’s Super-Plush bath sheet lives up to its name with 820 GSM of long-staple Turkish cotton and dense, zero-twist loops that deliver a velvety hand-feel. Jasmine Desiree, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2025 Ian Shorr wrote the script for Shiver, which has been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow, the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie about a soldier trapped in a time loop during an alien invasion, and The Shallows, the Blake Lively shark survival movie. Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for loop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loop
Noun
  • The show that brought us Lauren and Cameron is killing time by having an NBA point guard watch exes shoot hoops to decide who gets custody of the wedding ring neither paid for.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Accessories can include chunky jewelery and hoop earings.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The game was spiraling but Roberts pressed another button.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Led by scientists at Rice University in Houston, the study suggests Jupiter's early growth cut off the flow of gas and dust toward the inner solar system, preventing the material that would one day form Earth, Venus and Mars from spiraling into the sun.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bells ring, campuses crowd and intramural pamphlets pile up.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Choose from traditional Thanksgiving entrees such as roast turkey ($29) with giblet dressing, broiled ham steak ($29) with pineapple ring, half Muscovy duckling ($31) with applesauce, or broasted chicken ($29) with cranberry sauce.
    Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Enormous ventilation pipes were coiled like snakes on the roof of the building.
    Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Anyway, because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical), it wasn’t coiled that weekend.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hudson’s most recent project, the upcoming Song Sung Blue — which is based on the 2008 documentary of the same name — follows the lives of Mike Sardina (Hugh Jackman) and Claire Sardina (Hudson), a married couple who who performed as the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • That’s why this album opened the door for all the Eighties bar-band faux-Bruce clones.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Just before the robbery, the Jeep, which didn’t have a license plate, had circled the bank.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Skinner also gave his TikTok followers a full 360° view of their Zootopia costumes with a video of them dancing in Times Square as a camera circled them.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • O’Connell said the inspector found more than 20 belts on the Mamba did not lock as required.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Godard has some shorts under his belt.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The style is striking, with wooden ceiling panels curved like rock formations and plenty of nods to the natural world in the form of stone, more wood and bronze.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Plus, the legs are curved, providing more space to stretch out.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Loop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loop. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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