lopes 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of lope
as in hops
to move with a light springing step the jogger happily loped along, just enjoying the fresh morning air

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lopes

2 of 2

noun

plural of lope

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Verb
  • Re hops on a beam of light and flies into space in search of a cozy lunar nook.
    Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • On a crisp fall day, sun bathes the stones in light and a cat — one of a handful that roam the property — hops leisurely upon one.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One idea suggests that the electron-positron pairs are deflected by weak intergalactic magnetic fields and that this bounces low-energy gamma-rays out of our line of sight.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Our puck bounces the last couple games wasn’t really on our side.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Considering all three records, Thundercat says there are no skips.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This is also the first time this has happened in the charts’ history; Swift controlled the top spots with Midnights and Tortured Poets Department, but the top spots did not include every song without skips.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Age of Imprisonment both controls and performs leaps and bounds better than its predecessors.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • As my guide Nicolas Jeanroy preps his truffle gear, which looks like a collection of garden tools, his canine partner, Taïga, bounds up.
    Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Lopes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopes. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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