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as in hoop
a circular strip cut the paper into narrow strips, and then paste those into loops

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verb

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Recent Examples of loop
Noun
These tiny clips work by attaching to both the zipper of your bag and the ring or loop at the end of your purse to secure the pouch shut. Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2025 Join Docent Celeste Larson for a 5-mile loop through Blue Sky and around Lake Poway. Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025
Verb
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is digging in his heels amid calls from Democrats for his resignation in the wake of several high-profile Pentagon staff firings and the revelation of a second Signal chat reportedly looping his wife, brother and personal lawyer into military planning. Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025 Hao’s team imposed a limitation on the number of times information could loop through its transformer layers while remaining in latent space before the process had to end and produce tokens. Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for loop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loop
Noun
  • Out of a timeout with just over three minutes to go in the game, Jaylen Brown lost the ball while driving to the hoop.
    Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • Brown completed the look with a white coverup and accessorized with white sunglasses, a white coverup, silver hoop earrings and a silver necklace.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • But when the experiment spirals out of control, the group is forced into a nightmarish battle for survival as their reality begins to unravel.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 May 2025
  • Andonovski said the game was important to ensure consecutive losses to North Carolina and Seattle didn’t spiral.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Tucker, who won a championship with the Bucks in 2021, is one of two players with championship rings on the Knicks roster, with OG Anunoby (Raptors, 2019) the other. NUMBER 6.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
  • During the final episodes, her past comes back to haunt her when her twin brother, Leon (Nick Creegan), gets mixed up in a violent carjacking ring wreaking havoc on the city.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • And five seconds after that, Williams has his long arms coiled around the bigger boy like a python on a piglet.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • With a Hall of Fame-caliber resume, the apex predator appears coiled and ready to strike at his next challenger, John Cena, this Saturday (May 10), at Backlash in Orton’s hometown of St. Louis.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • The band last appeared on SNL three years ago for what was also that season’s Mother’s Day episode.
    William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
  • In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of young people sang along as a band played a popular song narrating the life of a foot soldier for the Sinaloa drug cartel.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • Soon, more of these sneaky clickers are circling, so Ellie makes Dina go and hide.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 May 2025
  • Most buyers admire the bravura filmmaking, but mainly art-house distributors are circling.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Book a trip through Red River Guide Service and spend the day fishing with Homer Humphreys, a local with over 40 years of tournament bass fishing under his belt.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
  • Grasso’s run with the belt ended at UFC 306 in September 2024 when Shevchenko earned a unanimous decision win.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Verb
  • Jay Hook had a degree in engineering and was the rare pitcher who could explain how a curveball curves.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • Her one-shoulder design was perfectly tailored to curve to her body for sleek yet stylish sophistication.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 5 May 2025

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“Loop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loop. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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