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• present participle of loop.

looping

American  

[loo-ping] / ˈlu pɪŋ /

noun

Movies.

1. the process of fitting speech to film already shot, especially by making a closed loop of the film for one scene and projecting it repeatedly until a good synchronization of film and recorded speech is achieved.

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Etymology

Origin of looping

1475–85 for an earlier sense; loop ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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looping

Look at those Watteau straps in the back, dripping with rhinestones and looping, swinging, amplifying the dynamics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Arsenal fans of a certain vintage will remember former Spurs boy Nayim's long, looping winner beating the moustachioed stopper in the final minute of extra time to give Real Zaragoza the Cup Winners' Cup.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

If the scale of any such looping is larger than the observable universe, we may never be able to detect it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The show also includes examples from his mid-1980s shift toward more colorful hues, calligraphy-like glyphs and looping lines that collectively confirmed him as one of the most influential abstract painters of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Thus, like a toy train doing endless figure eights on a looping track, her thoughts inevitably circled back to the very spot they kept trying to leave behind.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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