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Recent Examples of floppiness
Prune hydrangeas to prevent overgrowth, floppiness, or fewer blooms.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
21 June 2026
To prevent floppiness, trim yarrow right after flowering to support compact growth and promote another bloom cycle.
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Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Apr. 2026
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
21 June 2026
To prevent floppiness, trim yarrow right after flowering to support compact growth and promote another bloom cycle.
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Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for floppiness
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Their shows are driven by a physicality both intricately choreographed and fizzily chaotic, tightness and looseness alternating — even somehow overlapping — in a rolling series of lazzi and dances, fistfights and slapstick routines.
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Cobbled together as a mixtape from a collection of leaks—allegedly because Veeze was holding onto a payload of Carti tracks—the tape hums along with a looseness that could only come from not being edited to death.
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Still, being private isn’t a license to let laxness creep in.
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Trump’s steamrolling of anything, including the Constitution, that might impede his authoritarian project has made the limpness of the Democratic opposition more conspicuous.
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Nothing will ever stop the aging process, but things like SPF, antioxidant serums, and retinol can prevent fine lines, hyperpigmentation, and skin laxity that can slow it down.
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Although these driverless taxis were susceptible to citations from local law enforcement, laxity in autonomous vehicle regulations left California law enforcement puzzled about how to address vehicles that violated the state's road laws.
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“Floppiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floppiness. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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