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Recent Examples of glop
It was covered in a tantalizing explosion of tubes and dupes, gloops and glops: setting sprays, concealer, eyeshadow palettes, Unicorn Snot body glitter.
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Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
The dirt didn’t look different to her: no holes, no ripped piece of lawn, but was there something growing in the mud glop?
—Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
The dirt didn’t look different to her: no holes, no ripped piece of lawn, but was there something growing in the mud glop?
—Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glop
goo
Noun
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Chewy coconut, crunchy cashew crumbs, lots of caramel goo interspersed with chocolate goo.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2026
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Huggins is a quiet talker with a dry wit and Martin can be a downright big-hearted pile of goo.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Glop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glop. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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