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Recent Examples of lope
Daniel Bromfield, SPIN, 7 June 2024
Horses used the warning track to stretch their legs, ranging from a walk to a trot, maybe even a lope.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
Beyond that, the show is mostly content to amble along, loping toward the green and from time to time indulging in odd bits of nonsense.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 June 2025
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Verb
Kaytranada’s signature beat, halfway between the pulse of house and the drunken lope of J Dilla, rarely lets up.
—Daniel Bromfield, SPIN, 7 June 2024
Horses used the warning track to stretch their legs, ranging from a walk to a trot, maybe even a lope.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
Noun
Burnett has an associative, loping way of holding conversation.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
Beyond that, the show is mostly content to amble along, loping toward the green and from time to time indulging in odd bits of nonsense.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lope
Verb
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After the calls were shared and spread across social media, the 34-year-old hopped on X to publicly apologize to Mariah The Scientist.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Jimmy Uso hopped on the mic and cut an incredible promo.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Yet, for a team whose defense hardly made any plays for months at a time last season and dug an insurmountable hole by never getting the lucky bounce or break in a zillion one-score losses, there were no apologies.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Philadelphia 76ers are looking for a bounce-back season after being one of the most disappointing teams in the league last season.—
Ricardo Klein,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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At its event this week, Apple skipped some key details that could affect your decision.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 Sep. 2025
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Speedrunners have also found some arcane sequence skips to get around certain bosses or methods for putting off some boss fights until later than the developers intended.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Colombia makes a big leap this year, climbing from the fifth spot in 2024 to second place overall.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Is that enough to make a leap into the top half of the league?—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Lope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lope. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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