Example Sentences

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Participants in the placebo arm received the same monitoring and follow-up as the treatment arm, but there were no researchers trying to actively convince them that they were tripping, as in Olson’s experiment.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026

“I remember the wires going across the room,” Wild recalls, “and students were tripping on wires, pulling them from the circuit boards.”

From Nature • Oct. 2, 2018

“We were tripping out about it,” Jones said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2016

It was not too long ago that automakers were tripping over themselves in pursuit of younger buyers, offering boxy wagons and small, jellybean-shape city cars.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2016

Now they were tripping and stumbling toward the exit.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart