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as in mechanics
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the characteristic peculiarities and technicalities of something
needs a mentor who will show her the ropes of running a catering business
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as in brass tacks
ropes plural
the specific practical details of something
still learning the ropes of her new job
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as in to cord
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Recent Examples of rope
CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
At the end of her rope, Gay recorded the emotional video to be transparent about her situation and the mistakes she’s made.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
After Alex left, there was the hurdle of Link and Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) — and that disastrous moment when Link roped Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) kids into helping him with a proposal that quickly went awry.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The boy told investigators that Hildebrandt had used rope to bind his limbs to weights on the ground and dressed his wounds with cayenne pepper and honey, according to the police report.
—CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
At the end of her rope, Gay recorded the emotional video to be transparent about her situation and the mistakes she’s made.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
There's nothing wrong with the ending entailing nothing more than Lee's triumph over a Satanic serial killer (who just so happened to rope in her mom).
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
After Alex left, there was the hurdle of Link and Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) — and that disastrous moment when Link roped Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) kids into helping him with a proposal that quickly went awry.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rope
Noun
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The base that this is based on now has a bunch of barbed wire and fencing.—
Fred Topel,
Deadline,
5 Apr. 2025
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Let cool on the baking sheet set on a wire rack for about 10 minutes.—
Christopher Kimball,
Denver Post,
3 Apr. 2025
Verb
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This corded immersion blender sports a substantially more powerful 625 watts, a four-pronged blade, and five variable speed settings.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appétit,
20 Mar. 2025
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Do the most for the least tern in Huntington Beach Volunteers are needed 9 a.m. Saturday at Huntington State Beach to install cording along the fence around California least tern nests.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There was something about his level of aggression, particularly during debates on late-night cable TV.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Lian Li attached the O11 Vision Compact’s hardware kit to the back of that hinged divider, filling one of the two 2.5-inch drive mounts and consuming some of the additional cable space.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Trump's action to bulk up protections for American steel and aluminum producers restores effective global tariffs of 25% on all imports of the metals and extends the duties to hundreds of downstream products made from the metals, from nuts and bolts to bulldozer blades and soda cans.—
David Lawder and Andrea Shalal,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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A lot of authors don’t want to know anything about the nuts and bolts and the complexity and the difficulty of the film and television process.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Wearing a T-shirt and shorts, strapped with an acoustic guitar, Sheeran was seen in videos circulating on social media playing to a crowd along Church Street in Bengaluru, India's tech capital.—
Jay Stahl,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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Then the two will strap into their own SpaceX capsule later this week, one that has been up there since last year, to close out an unexpected extended mission that began last June.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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She's used to her dog demanding specifics and wanted to film it for others to see her rags-to-riches rescue's request.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
25 Dec. 2024
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Creating an internal podcast exclusively for employees allows companies to delve deeper into organizational specifics and cultivate a unique sense of culture.—
Fatima Zaidi,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Verb
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On a team in need of offense, Grimes answered the bell as a top scorer in the month of March, tying Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards for 11th in scoring at 26.6 points per game.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2025
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Then, a quick flurry from the other team, and the game was tied.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Some cognitive scientists have assumed that all humans, whatever their local quirks, reason about time using spatial metaphors, yet at least one language, Tupi-Kawahíb, evidently lacks any mapping between time and space—not left to right, back to front, or downhill to uphill.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Modern-day genetic quirks linked to skin color, hair color and even nose shape can be traced back to our extinct former neighbors.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2024
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“Rope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rope. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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