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Recent Examples of glop
Human inventiveness turned that glop into an energy resource that has vastly enriched the world.
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Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
16 June 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.
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Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
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Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings.
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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.
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
3 Sep. 2019
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
16 June 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
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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The action, set on France’s rugged northern coast, is anchored by teen romance, involves far-right anti-migrant activists, and is complicated by blue goo from space that creates clones—including of the two loopy police officers who investigate.
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Directed by Son Jae-gon and starring Gang Dong-won, Uhm Tae-goo, and Park Ji-hyun, the film tracks a faded first-generation K-pop co-ed dance trio making a reckless attempt to stage a comeback two decades after a plagiarism scandal dissolved their careers.
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“Glop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glop. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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