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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
These tiny clips work by attaching to both the zipper of your bag and the ring or loop at the end of your purse to secure the pouch shut. Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2025 Join Docent Celeste Larson for a 5-mile loop through Blue Sky and around Lake Poway. Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025
Verb
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is digging in his heels amid calls from Democrats for his resignation in the wake of several high-profile Pentagon staff firings and the revelation of a second Signal chat reportedly looping his wife, brother and personal lawyer into military planning. Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025 Hao’s team imposed a limitation on the number of times information could loop through its transformer layers while remaining in latent space before the process had to end and produce tokens. Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for loop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loop
Noun
  • Out of a timeout with just over three minutes to go in the game, Jaylen Brown lost the ball while driving to the hoop.
    Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • Brown completed the look with a white coverup and accessorized with white sunglasses, a white coverup, silver hoop earrings and a silver necklace.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • What starts as a calculated attempt to regain control quickly spirals into emotional chaos.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 1 May 2025
  • Not a perfect one, but a way to stop spiraling and start resetting.
    Minna Hu, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Tucker, who won a championship with the Bucks in 2021, is one of two players with championship rings on the Knicks roster, with OG Anunoby (Raptors, 2019) the other. NUMBER 6.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
  • During the final episodes, her past comes back to haunt her when her twin brother, Leon (Nick Creegan), gets mixed up in a violent carjacking ring wreaking havoc on the city.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Flood echoed the sentiment of many traders that have said the market appeared coiled for a relief rally because so many hedge funds were caught on the wrong side of this bet.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Named after the serpent king from Hindu mythology who coils around Lord Shiva’s neck, Vasuki indicus carries a name as rooted in India as the rocks it was pulled from.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of young people sang along as a band played a popular song narrating the life of a foot soldier for the Sinaloa drug cartel.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • The band last appeared on SNL three years ago for what was also that season’s Mother’s Day episode.
    William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • Given the corporate intrigue and multiple regulatory strands circling the case and the merger review, the actual merits of the case often get lost.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The two had circled each other for the first two games of the series but stopped short of full engagement.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Book a trip through Red River Guide Service and spend the day fishing with Homer Humphreys, a local with over 40 years of tournament bass fishing under his belt.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
  • Grasso’s run with the belt ended at UFC 306 in September 2024 when Shevchenko earned a unanimous decision win.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Verb
  • Her one-shoulder design was perfectly tailored to curve to her body for sleek yet stylish sophistication.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 5 May 2025
  • Jay Hook had a degree in engineering and was the rare pitcher who could explain how a curveball curves.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025

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“Loop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loop. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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