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palping

verb

present participle of palp

as in clinging (to)

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Moore was convicted in 2013 in an unrelated incident of inappropriately touching a 16-year-old boy.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
Four years later, that team runs 40% cheaper and 94% of routine employee questions get resolved without a person touching them.

— Billy Biggs, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 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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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
In the trailer, the camera pans over to Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s characters in their bathroom, brushing their teeth in tandem.

— Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 23 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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A shot to her back and a bullet grazing her skull led to medical complications and her ultimate retirement from the Army.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
While the Griffiths were in a carriage on their way to the grave of Tina’s recently-deceased mother, someone fired a gun at them from another carriage, grazing Griffith’s head.

— Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2026

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