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Recent Examples of looping
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
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
Adjective
Launched in February 2020, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has been following a looping path around the Sun.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
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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On the far right side, a giant elliptical galaxy appears to have a stream that connects it to a group of galaxies that exhibit spiral and disk-like features, with stellar streams abounding in that galaxy group or cluster.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Nov. 2025
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This track has more spiral turns than any other track previously created by Andretti.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Dense dust lanes can be seen coiling around Andromeda's glowing galactic center, which is thought to house a supermassive black hole 140 million times more massive than our sun.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The film follows seventeen-year-old Katie Thompson, a troubled teen spiralling after the tragic death of her younger brother – a loss that has left her not only emotionally scarred but also cursed with a disturbing ability to glimpse the world beyond the living.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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But man, these guys are spiraling.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Afterwards, Canadian downtempo duo Freak Heat Waves pulled a projector screen down from the ceiling and got to work swirling house, psych-rock, dub, and trip-hop into an entrancing, yet slightly somber zone.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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On the third day of their search, as Bruce waded into the water holding a safety line, feeling for the man with his feet, swirling currents swept him away.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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As seen in a now-viral clip circling social media, a woman was spotted in the stands at Lambeau Field holding a sign created in full support of the retired NFL star.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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Netflix, Comcast and Amazon MGM have been circling.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass wrote, directed and starred in this blood-curling 2014 film that follows a videographer who takes on a job for an eccentric client.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Seasonal activities are planned according to guest request and include curling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and ice skating on nearby Lake Placid.—
Suzanne Wright,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 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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Other standout features include a custom brass kitchen and a curving brass staircase to match.—
Mekita Rivas,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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So much of Brazil strains the imagination—the interminable skyline of São Paulo, the beaches of Rio curving between monoliths of granite, the aquamarine pools trapped between the undulating dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses.—
William O'Connor,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Looping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looping. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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