as in graceful
moving easily
the expressive movements of agile dancers agile herons wading in the marsh
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Recent Examples of agile
Presumably artificial intelligence and other technologies could be leveraged to make that sort of command and control more agile and responsive.
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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 May 2025
It’s been nearly, well, 28 years since Danny Boyle gave zombie cinema a jittery digital makeover while irking the Romero faithful with his sprinting hordes of agile infected.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
The ultimate priority is creating agile teams which can continuously test and learn from personalized experiences and scale them effectively.
—Amit Ojha, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
There are two types of databases: relational, such as Amazon, Oracle and Sybase; and document, intended for agile and mobile-centric applications.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 17 May 2025
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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 May 2025
It’s been nearly, well, 28 years since Danny Boyle gave zombie cinema a jittery digital makeover while irking the Romero faithful with his sprinting hordes of agile infected.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
The ultimate priority is creating agile teams which can continuously test and learn from personalized experiences and scale them effectively.
—Amit Ojha, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
There are two types of databases: relational, such as Amazon, Oracle and Sybase; and document, intended for agile and mobile-centric applications.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 17 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for agile
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agile
graceful
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This is graceful, quietly intelligent filmmaking—including a touch of unsentimental magic realism involving a wise and beautiful Norwegian Forest Cat.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
23 May 2025
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Marked by a graceful melancholia and filled with daunting technical feats, especially the director’s signature, logistics-defying long takes, his films are beautifully realized meditations on nostalgia and loss in which the cinema tends to be a character itself.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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“Agile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agile. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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