grooved
Americanverb
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On the floors of many valleys and craters, swirling, grooved patterns reveal where icy material once moved during an earlier martian ice age.
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025
Stone then grooved a 95-mph fastball to Angels catcher Logan O’Hoppe, who crushed a towering 429-foot three-run home run that bounced on top of the netting above the center-field pavilion.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024
Set to a backdrop of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” the dancers, from the Brooklyn-based group Diversity of Dance, bounced, leaped and grooved down the aisles through the crowd before taking the stage.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023
The game’s signature moment was Ripken’s homer on the first pitch he saw in the third inning on a grooved fastball from the Dodgers’ Chan Ho Park.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023
He nocked it, let it rest across the handgrip, and drew the string and grooved butt of the arrow, aiming from where he sat upon the stool.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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