: something that is clipped off or out of something else
grass clippings
especially
: an item clipped from a publication
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Stewart was also a prolific chronicler of her own story, keeping news clippings, photographs, and letters that span decades and continents.
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Sara Ivry, JSTOR Daily, 19 Feb. 2025
Highly classified material was mixed in with newspaper clippings and dinner menus.
—Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Acceptable items for the site include leaves, grass clippings and wood, while unacceptable items include plastic bags, trash, lumber, soil or dirt, animal waste, rock and metal, according to the website.
—Noah Mitchell, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Scrapbooks, usually memorializing a family or group history, were popularized in America during the Civil War, and used during the suffrage and abolition movement to preserve newspaper clippings.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
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Sara Ivry, JSTOR Daily, 19 Feb. 2025
Highly classified material was mixed in with newspaper clippings and dinner menus.
—Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Acceptable items for the site include leaves, grass clippings and wood, while unacceptable items include plastic bags, trash, lumber, soil or dirt, animal waste, rock and metal, according to the website.
—Noah Mitchell, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Scrapbooks, usually memorializing a family or group history, were popularized in America during the Civil War, and used during the suffrage and abolition movement to preserve newspaper clippings.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Clipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clipping. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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clipping
noun
clip·ping
ˈklip-iŋ 
: something cut out or off
a newspaper clipping
grass clippings
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