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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.

Etymology

Origin of looping

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

Example Sentences

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“The looping shows you that there’s not much difference between 1851 and 2026,” Robinson said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Instead of flying straight to Mars, the spacecraft are currently looping around a point in space about a million miles from Earth known as Lagrange point 2.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Thursday night was the latest in a string of perceived errors made by Schmeichel, following Joe Hugill's looping header for Kilmarnock last weekend and Jonathan Rowe's effort for Bologna last month.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Burden’s “Metropolis II,” perennially on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a dizzying, looping track for toy cars that zoom between shiny skyscrapers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

It’s full of brief notes in Mum’s looping cursive.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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