as in muscular
having great physical strength, skill, or ability
She had always been athletic, playing multiple sports even as a child.
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Recent Examples of athletic
The curved lines and mesh detailing add a dash of vintage street style, and pair well with everything from athletic wear to wide-leg trousers and a T-shirt.
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Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
Rick George, Colorado's athletic director, expressed confidence in the job Coach Prime is doing.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Professional sports are rapacious for-profit enterprises that produce wildly entertaining, sometimes violent, and sometimes inspiring athletic competition.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
Tradeoffs that favor continuous, lower-force tasks in civilian settings rather than explosive athletic motions.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
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Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
Rick George, Colorado's athletic director, expressed confidence in the job Coach Prime is doing.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Professional sports are rapacious for-profit enterprises that produce wildly entertaining, sometimes violent, and sometimes inspiring athletic competition.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
Tradeoffs that favor continuous, lower-force tasks in civilian settings rather than explosive athletic motions.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for athletic
Adjective
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On home turf, against a struggling Fulham side, this was a more muscular Everton.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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This summer, Vinay Prasad, a top scientist at the Food and Drug Administration, was working to place a regulatory hold on a muscular-dystrophy drug, owing to safety concerns.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The acquisition of Anthony Davis has done 0 because the 32-year-old man can’t stay healthy.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Nov. 2025
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While maintaining a healthy weight plays a role in mitigating cardiovascular and diabetes risk, the measurement alone overlooks the importance of muscle as a predictor of healthy aging and longevity.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Nov. 2025
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But despite strong technical progress, widespread adoption remains challenging due to cost, infrastructure demands, and limited technological maturity.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Paul Verhoeven — whose savagely funny RoboCop came out the same year and was picked by Schwarzenegger to direct 1990’s Total Recall — would have been a much better fit, and with this impressively muscular reboot, one senses that Edgar Wright thinks so too.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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Compact pumps such as Momcozy M9 and M5 Breast Pump are designed to pair with the same bra fit and everyday, which means fewer wardrobe changes when plans shift.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The powerful currents of flash floods can carry drivers off the road.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Nov. 2025
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Northrop revealed that measuring smaller than a business card, the EW system was not only the smallest at the event but also the most capable, packing powerful performance into an unprecedented form factor.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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For Atlas, this means proving that a highly agile, fully electric system can perform sustained, repetitive work without the trade-offs that come with research-grade complexity.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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At the same time, businesses need to be agile.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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These include electric vehicles with extended driving ranges, large-scale renewable energy storage systems that can balance intermittent solar and wind power, and lightweight, flexible power sources for portable and wearable electronics.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Airlines have been alerting customers whose flights are canceled and offering flexible rebooking and refund options to other travelers headed to those 40 airports.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Athletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/athletic. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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