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Recent Examples of looping
Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 2025
Following the close pass, 2025 FA22 will continue its 668-day looping path through the inner solar system that takes it well beyond the orbit of Mars.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Key qualities are the multicolor LED lights and sound machine functions (30 non-looping sounds, by the way).
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 2025
Following the close pass, 2025 FA22 will continue its 668-day looping path through the inner solar system that takes it well beyond the orbit of Mars.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looping
Adjective
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Vaquer secured the pinfall after hitting a spiral tap.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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Frost cooled cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting using a large round tip in a spiral motion.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But poverty, crime, old friendships, loyalty and love threaten to drag McCoy spiraling into darker and more desperate circumstances.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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President Vladimir Putin had pledged not to raise taxes before 2030, but spiraling military and security expenditure — and reduced income from oil thanks to sanctions and Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries — have hit Moscow’s exchequer.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Through the darkness and swirling mist, ghostly figures emerge from the looming ship.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Stocked with swirling synths and a driving bass line, the song sounds custom made for roller rinks in the ‘70s, but is equally irresistible today.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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We were stuck in a holding pattern, circling in Jordanian airspace near the border with Israel while awaiting the order to proceed.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
23 Sep. 2025
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If roots are tangled and circling, cut 1 inch into the root mass at four equidistant places and at the bottom of the rootball.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Midway through the twenty-first century, a nuclear disaster sent tsunamis curling over the continents, sinking New York and Rotterdam and turning the United Kingdom into an archipelago.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The first-half move that led to Dilane Bakwa’s curling shot — pushed away by Dubravka — was delightful.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The eclipse maximum This magnificent view of the sun's disk was captured minutes after the local eclipse maximum, when 70% of the solar surface surface was hidden by the curving expanse of the moon in the skies above Dunedin in New Zealand.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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Now operated by the 3rd generation of the Scott family, who still cook burn-barrel style on big cinderblock pits under the curving metal roof of the pit house.—
Robert F. Moss,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Any number of odd, zigzag examples can be used to make the case that legislative districts in Wisconsin are excessively gerrymandered.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
17 Nov. 2023
Verb
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Raiola moved to his right and launched a high-arcing ball downfield.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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Chris Durkin played a long arcing ball-in from well outside the area to the back post and João Klauss flicked a header to McSorley for the finish.—
Mercury News staff,
Mercury News,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Looping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looping. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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