a pop

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as in each
for each one We found a food truck selling ice cream cones for $2 a pop.

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Recent Examples of a pop Naomi Scott gives one of the best performances of 2024 as a pop star who becomes attached to the smile demon, sending her down a terrifying roller coaster to one of the most memorable horror-movie endings in years. — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026 The shooting happened during a pop-up birthday party near Hale and Miramonte avenues on July 25. — Jason Green, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026 Kevin Costner, who starred in The Bodyguard, brought the song to composer David Foster, who rearranged it as a pop ballad for Houston. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026 There were creator programming and panels, book clubs, hands-on crafting activities, a pop-up cafe from Brooklyn’s Land to Sea and tons of merch. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026 And his goal is for the Fair’s two medical buildings to not just be basic first-aid tents but fully functional on-site clinics for what is essentially a pop-up city of hundreds of thousands of people every day. — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 27 Aug. 2026 Elliott was also mispegged as a folk singer during his lifetime, to his own bafflement; his music has a pop architecture that runs deep, and an architecture that goes deeper than that is purely, idiosyncratically Elliott. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 After Clark's homer, the Tigers added another run in the inning when Gleyber Torres reached on a pop fly that dropped between second baseman Richie Palacios and DeLuca in right. — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Save the date 🍎 The Organization for Community Preservation is hosting a pop-up event this Saturday at 1801 Quindaro Blvd. — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026

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“A pop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/a%20pop. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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