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verb

Definition of lope

as in to hop

to move with a light springing step the jogger happily loped along, just enjoying the fresh morning air

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Verb

The other two shots were right at the rim, while the Hawkeyes hit a loping 3-pointer. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026 Muller and editor Noel Paul don’t impose a narrative arc on these fragmented lives, instead casually drifting between them at a pace that suggests the loping rhythm of their days. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026

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 See All Example Sentences for lope

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Verb

As a result, the harmonies and chords are in a state of perpetual change, moving together more like clouds of starlings or minnows than a single frog hopping from stone to stone.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
These yellow dots would hop from planet to planet, until eventually landing on earth.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 July 2026

Definition of hop

Noun

Winning, after all, can be the result of an unfortunate bounce, a bad call, or one small mistake.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2026
Occidental Petroleum has underperformed in recent months, but is likely due for a bounce as investors reevaluate its fundamentals, according to Evercore ISI.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 8 July 2026

Definition of bounce

Verb

Maison Margiela is also skipping the schedule, after last showing couture in July 2025, when creative director Glenn Martens presented his debut for the house.

— Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 6 July 2026
The Dodgers, however, could still decide to have Ohtani skip his last pitching start before the All-Star break.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of skip

Noun

In these nine half-baths, designers listed on the AD PRO Directory take imaginative leaps, treating each one as a canvas to wow.

— Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 13 July 2026
But the real challenge – and the reason no bird-scale robot has managed this leap before – is the split second in between, when the robot has to shove itself out of the water with nothing but its wings.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 July 2026

Definition of leap

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