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Adjective
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Meanwhile, LinkedIn is flooded with postings of lean, 10-person teams achieving $10+ million in ARR for their agentic AI business.—
Mark Francis,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Daily life here tends to be leaner, quieter, and less consumption-driven.—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The top-floor primary suite faces the water with a fireplace, a sitting area that spills onto a slender balcony, and a spectacular bathroom that turns bathing and grooming into a ceremony.—
Mark David,
Robb Report,
4 Sep. 2025
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For a modern or narrow doorway, tall, slender plants elongate the entry.—
Lauren Jones,
Southern Living,
4 Sep. 2025
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The standard trim, layer, and fine-tune features are all here, plus elements like automatic captions, text, 4K HDR, and more.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Cut to the ubiquitous trim, tight, cropped pants that have dominated the men’s market for years now.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Only two bodies remain still: Ferran’s, in one corner of the platform, and that of a young man (Jabez Sykes) diagonally across from her, tall and willowy and pale — two statues that seem moonlit while the rest of the world writhes and sweats around them.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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For a cozy, preppy look for fall, for example, pair your favorite brown riding boots with black leggings or skinny jeans and a sweater.—
Abby Morgan Lebet,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Marguerite Another skinny silhouette, just a little longer.—
Kristina Rutkowski,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.—
Cory Martin,
Verywell Health,
16 Oct. 2024
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Differences in Adult Bones That being said, some adults are bonier than others.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
3 Nov. 2023
Adjective
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Keeping it svelte is important with anything launched into space, but on the moon, where gravity is six times weaker, that poses problems.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The tennis champion did indeed use a GLP-1 to achieve that svelte body.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Yet somehow, in a medium of heavy copper, Fischl captures the lithe, swaying, physical vitality of Ashe, as well as the high-mindedness of the man who was so committed to social causes.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
30 Aug. 2025
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Despite weighing nearly 3 tons, the SUV feels lithe and precise.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Clean-limbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clean-limbed. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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