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It means to bend one's head or body forward and downward. Example: "The old man walked with a stooping posture, his back curved from years of hard labor." In this sentence, 'stooping' is used to describe the physical position of the old man. Other examples of using 'stooping' in written English include: - "She was stooping down to pick up her fallen keys." - "The child was stooping over the garden bed to plant some seeds." - "He couldn't see the small font, so he was stooping closer to the paper." - "The stooping figure of the beggar caught the attention of passersby." Overall, 'stooping' can be used in any context where a person or object is bending forward in a hunched or lowered position.
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stooping
verb
Present participle of stoop
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Nigel Farage was accused of stooping to a "new level of ignorance" after he called for people who have tested positive for HIV to be banned from migrating to Britain as a "good start" in controlling the UK's borders.
His 30th international goal was a header from a corner early on, before stooping to add a second, also with his head, just after the half hour.
"They have simply decided that we are not worth the trouble," says Andrew Brookes, an air-power analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.With every advance in American technology, the cost of stooping low enough to bring allies into the battlefield grows higher.
Her granddaughter remembers her as a frail, stooping, ghost-like figure flitting about the house, obsessively neat, endlessly crocheting doilies and antimacassars.
The 68-year-old president, slightly stooping and studiously uncharismatic, may seem an unlikely free-thinker, but his decision on the Myitsone dam marked him out as quite different from his predecessor, Than Shwe (who now keeps a low profile and is rarely seen in public).
But it stands like a ghost at the already too large funeral, for had the British state proved itself able to successfully combat terrorism instead of itself stooping to methods of dubious legality, then victim and killer might be the more readily separable.
His image of a desolate row of petrol pumps in New Mexico; a cowboy lounging by a rubbish bin in New York; a morose, stooping lift attendant; a hunched figure by an arrow-shaped neon sign in Los Angeles: all look like amateur snapshots when set against the formal beauty and tonal range of photographs by Edward Weston, say, or Ansel Adams.
Indeed, by the 1870s factory owners claimed that it was they who were stooping under the burden of regulation.
Al Jazeera, they say, has faked footage of demonstrations and their suppression, stooping even to building replicas of Syrian towns as backdrops for staged scenes of violence.
Without such an explanation, some radiologists are reluctant to accept a diagnosis at odds with what they think their eyes are telling them.In this section A shot of transparency Riders on a storm Your bosom buddy Stooping to conquer ReprintsGeorgia Tourassi, of Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, and her colleagues hope to overcome this reluctance to be overruled by a machine.
To please Mr Sarrazin's sympathisers without stooping to populism she attended the awarding of a press-freedom prize to a Danish cartoonist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.The substantive decisions seem riskier.
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