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Recent Examples of loopy
But Pam could never anticipate how loopy Grace will get.
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Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
Pam, soon to become Grace’s mother-in-law, tells her that everybody in her position goes loopy.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2025
The best and the loopiest of the snippets are also the most personal.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
The origin of animal complexity might literally have been loopy.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
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Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
Pam, soon to become Grace’s mother-in-law, tells her that everybody in her position goes loopy.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2025
The best and the loopiest of the snippets are also the most personal.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
The origin of animal complexity might literally have been loopy.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loopy
Adjective
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People wanted to wear clothes at the cutting edge, which gave dotty fabrics woven by machine a natural fanbase among the society ladies who could afford them.—
Natalie Hammond,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025
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Jones, Redgrave, and an unrecognizable Margot Kidder as their dotty landlady bravely expose their vulnerability.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Setting aside the gawking nature of certain style choices (the warped, swiveling, 360-degree shots used when someone starts talking about particularly demented ideas are nauseating on multiple levels), the series too closely mirrors its subjects’ insularity.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are bodily fluids, jeering crowds, and demonic Punch and Judy puppets applauding through the chaos, giving the scene the air of a demented fairy tale.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Colloquial slang in reverence to the most maniacal competitors.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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Clearly, a straight line can be drawn from Lola to Moira Rose, the maniacal former soap-opera star, wig enthusiast, and erratic wife/mom on Schitt’s Creek (for which Catherine won an Emmy and a Golden Globe).—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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While Hadari is rebranding as YH Studios, his creative voice remains unchanged, clearly influenced by Browne in his fusion of the sartorial with the slightly psychotic.—
Ari Stark,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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At a house party full of caviar, one of the women, while immersed in a motherhood quandary, asks another if there’s something psychotic and untoward in her devouring piles of tiny eggs.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Saltburn was a collection of delirious imagery that featured some incoherent aspirations toward class commentary.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
9 Feb. 2026
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This sets off what looks to be a delirious search across Ireland and beyond to solve the mystery of her whereabouts.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Jenner’s red carpet fashion, however, isn’t always so eccentric.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
14 Feb. 2026
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The film’s eccentric flourishes may sound corny, but the writer-directors Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer ground the premise in a deeply sincere sense of yearning.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Fifty-seven years ago, another veteran character actress in her seventies, Ruth Gordon, played a batty old lady in a horror film from a major studio, Rosemary’s Baby, and ultimately took home a best supporting actress Oscar.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Nov. 2025
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One of the things that drives me truly batty is my duvet.—
Elliott Harrell,
Southern Living,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Try nutritional yeast mixed into homemade sauces and batters, or sprinkled onto savory dishes, for a nutty, cheesy flavor without dairy.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
16 Feb. 2026
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This spot stocks sweets like halwa, a kind of nutty fudge, as well as dates and spices sold packed and ready-to-go, perfect for travel gifts.—
Rachel Morris,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Loopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loopy. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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