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Recent Examples of lope
Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
Perry has been loping around the world on this tour for four months.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The latter has an easy lope made menacing by a cartoon-alien zap answered by other machines that caw like birds.
—Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
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Verb
One likes to imagine Paleo Dad loping across the savannah in hot pursuit of a wooly mammoth.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
Perry has been loping around the world on this tour for four months.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
Deep in the Singing Spruce Forest bear hunters unsnapped their rifles and began the long lope home.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The latter has an easy lope made menacing by a cartoon-alien zap answered by other machines that caw like birds.
—Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lope
Verb
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After his 2022 bankruptcy petition was approved, Gurliacci rejoined the work force, hopping to six Georgia law enforcement agencies within three years, each time resigning before moving on, records obtained by AP show.—
Ryan J. Foley,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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Around the same time Shapiro was hopping the fence in Southern California, Doris Elaine Severtson in Washington state, similarly barred from her high school’s track, was training on the beaches and woods along the Puget Sound.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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And while the team is hopeful for a bounce-back year from Chuba Hubbard and a major injury turnaround from former second-round pick Jonathon Brooks, Morgan and company can’t simply rest on their optimism.—
Mike Kaye
April 14,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2026
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The rally built on Monday’s broad bounce in software stocks, which boosted Oracle nearly 13%.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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YouTube will now skip ads during a live stream if engagement begins to peak.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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Meghan, 44, and Harry, 41, skipped a traditional airport photo op, instead departing in a convoy of vehicles without stopping to pose for the press.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This is about the leap toward specificity, to diving below the surface of the most broadly appealing, easy-to-synthesize dishes — the ones, from any nation’s cuisine, that rarely make their way into restaurant repertoires.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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And an unlikely leap to the second seed would give the Knicks home-court advantage in a potential second-round matchup against the Celtics.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Lope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lope. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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