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palping

verb

present participle of palp

as in clinging (to)

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Because Huang is the public face of Nvidia and directs its engineering strategy, any foreign intelligence contact touching his inner circle is certain to draw scrutiny from US defense officials.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2026
The answer was body contact, which helps reveal which couple is real, so the team settled on choreography with plenty of touching.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Nov. 2026

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But Fox News also is likely feeling the impact of the dwindling number of homes with subscriptions to pay TV, as consumers continue to abandon cable and satellite services for streaming, although CNN and MS NOW gained viewers despite the same trend.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
As housing prices have skyrocketed, so too have property tax bills, despite homeowners feeling no richer.

— M. Nolan Gray, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026

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There are no little bulges to accommodate the eyes, just cozy silk brushing lightly against my eyelids.

— Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 29 Oct. 2026
Carefully dig up the mother plant or remove it from the container, brushing soil from clumps of roots or rhizomes.

— Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2026

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Men in some communities stop shaving, while women may remove their jewelry.

— Shushan Karapetian, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
Like almost winning a race, almost shaving a second off my time for the 3200m run, my event in high school, the one that got me into college, a recruit for someone else to gamble on.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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To my left, a string of horses are grazing peacefully in a meadow; to my right, a coterie of children are throwing footballs and making s’mores on a campfire as the distant twang of bluegrass ripples through the air.

— Olivia Singer, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2026
The ranchers expect to keep grazing sheep alongside their colossal future neighbor.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

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