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loped

verb

past tense of lope

as in hopped

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

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Feminist Gloria Steinem, who died last week, hopped in a bunny suit so other women writers could leap.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Two summers ago, the internet received the gift of Raygun, an Australian breakdancer who kangaroo-hopped her way into the 2024 Paris Olympics.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

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The evacuation area was roughly bounded by Promontory Road to the north, Sunset Boulevard to the south, the 405 Freeway to the east and Bundy Drive to the west.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026

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Most notably, the infamous Circa Survivor saw nearly one-third of its record 25,017 entries (at $1,000 each) bounced by the Bolts — and by the way, include me in the carnage.

— Doug Kezirian, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
The native New Yorker bounced from family to family and then to a group home.

— Anne Kadet, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2026

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