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[lip] / lɪp /




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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

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

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

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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