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Recent Examples of hoop
Even so, the fact that Illinois — the flagship university in the nation’s sixth most populous state and a school with an enrollment of nearly 60,000 — feels most like this year’s out-of-nowhere underdog speaks more about the current state of college hoops than the Illini themselves.
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Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2026
Rice has played more of a shooting guard role this season with Leger-Walker taking over at point guard, which has opened her up to shoot more and drive to the hoop without facilitating as often.
—Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
Three of Taxstone’s cohorts on the inside, Jonathan Guerrero, Ian Diez and Abel Mora, can be seen on the jail surveillance video rolling a food cart to the corner of the room and stacking chairs on it, then rolling it to another corner near a basketball hoop.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Every third quarter this group comes out and hoops.
—Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
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Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2026
Rice has played more of a shooting guard role this season with Leger-Walker taking over at point guard, which has opened her up to shoot more and drive to the hoop without facilitating as often.
—Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
Three of Taxstone’s cohorts on the inside, Jonathan Guerrero, Ian Diez and Abel Mora, can be seen on the jail surveillance video rolling a food cart to the corner of the room and stacking chairs on it, then rolling it to another corner near a basketball hoop.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Every third quarter this group comes out and hoops.
—Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoop
Noun
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Future closed-loop control systems will likely use online sensors and microfluidic regulators to maintain these within fetal norms.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Raven Loop tunnel was one of more than 480 pitches Boring Company received to build a one-mile long loop tunnel that is 12 feet in diameter.—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The woman had diamond rings and other jewelry, as well as cash and keys to a car.—
Kevin Foster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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The team is gathering community support to fundraise for championship rings to memorialize their history-making season.—
Rina Nakano,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Foote and Dickow have been collaborators for nearly three decades, playing together in Rex Ritter’s post-Jessamine band Fontanelle and the Portland post-rock band Nudge.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
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On Friday, the group released a documentary on Netflix, which chronicled the group’s balancing act during the making of Arirang as the band looked to honor its roots in Korea even as their audience has expanded to encompass the entire world.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2026
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Stacy Jennings posted 2 hits, 2 RBIs and a walk while also dominating in the circle, allowing three hits and zero earned runs.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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It had been mounted on a small platform, which bore a little icon of a pair of feet inside a backslash circle, as though stepping into a guillotine were every museumgoer’s wish.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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The sounds of friendly chatter echoed through a downtown Boise restaurant as tortilla after tortilla circled down a spiral warming belt.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Mar. 2026
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The 24 Apollo astronauts who traveled to the Moon are the only people who have ever been past the Van Allen radiation belts, an area of space surrounding our planet formed by Earth’s magnetic field.—
Scott Solomon,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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Gordon ended up suffering a left hamstring strain in Game 6 of Denver’s second-round series against Oklahoma City.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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Slaughter is projected to be a third- or fourth-round pick.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Hoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoop. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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