lip
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Even before her downfall, Holmes drew the media’s attention with her wide, unblinking eyes, bold red lip, deep voice and stilted speech — all of which became parody-ready upon her indictment.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Though it’s nice of Roberts to pay enough lip service that he’s not totally discounting the best-of-five current series they’re in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
E.l.f. ultimately made the price cuts permanent on roughly 10% of its lineup, including its Cream Glide Lip Liner and other products across its lip, eye, face and skin lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"With atypical absences that last longer, people may have automatic movements like fidgeting with their hands, eyelid fluttering and lip smacking. Some people may fall."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“So maybe we already did what the letter wanted us to do,” Regan said, biting her lip.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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One can practically taste the butter on their lips as Kirsten Dunst glides through ornate halls and indulges in raspberry-topped sweets.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Research into hormones that regulate appetite is on everybody's lips for the Nobel medicine prize, to be announced on Monday when the 2026 Nobel season kicks off.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
To keep the theme going, my colleagues rooted around for some of Slate’s best stories from the mid-aughts midterm year that’s on everyone’s lips.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
When my mom asked me what I’d learned on my first day of school, “Look, Jerry, look” didn’t cross my lips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The badger looked as though she was trying not to laugh, her lips curling around her fangs.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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For good measure he also called Mellon “tight lipped, steely eyed and tight fisted.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
In a family fallout riddled with mistrust and rancour, the two camps stayed very tight lipped about the possibility of a meeting.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025
A long birdie putt at No. 18 lipped out.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Eventually, Ricardo loses on his final stroke—his ball does “a full wrap around the hole but lipped out”—and Adams wins.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2024
He was still watching Kosi and Buchi talk to the red' lipped clown, when Okwudiba arrived.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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He then missed good birdie chances at 13, 14 and 15, also lipping out at 17 as he matched the 2019 36-hole record score of Brooks Koepka at 12 under par.
From BBC ● May 17, 2024
If someone would have said, the day I was back lipping it, that someone’s going to come here and do a nollie 270 switch back lip I wouldn’t even know what to say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
Mickelson opened with a birdie on the par-5 first hole and had four more on the back nine, including a tap-in on 18 after lipping out for eagle.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Matsuyama had the shortest attempt - from 20 feet - and it nearly went in the cup before lipping out.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2021
They looked like beavers, the water lipping about their chins, yelling.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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