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as in agile
moving easily
the graceful ballerina effortlessly leapt across the stage
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as in elegant
having or showing elegance
sat down in the old plantation home's very graceful parlor
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Recent Examples of graceful
Simulating data poisoning, rare clinical conditions and system failures, then automating rollback triggers, ensures graceful degradation.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Carefree in motion and charmed by its surroundings, Brandee Younger’s eighth album gets lost in a dreamlike blend of lightweight jazz, classical precision, and the soulfulness of old-school R&B, all anchored by Younger’s graceful harp.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 June 2025
In this muscular but graceful performance, Torres shows us what resistance truly means.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 June 2025
The result is a longer swing path that looks more fluid, like the rest of his brutally graceful game.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for graceful
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Carefree in motion and charmed by its surroundings, Brandee Younger’s eighth album gets lost in a dreamlike blend of lightweight jazz, classical precision, and the soulfulness of old-school R&B, all anchored by Younger’s graceful harp.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 June 2025
In this muscular but graceful performance, Torres shows us what resistance truly means.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 June 2025
The result is a longer swing path that looks more fluid, like the rest of his brutally graceful game.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for graceful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graceful
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Whether a leader wants to strengthen the company's culture, pivot into new markets or understand how to be more agile in the face of changing conditions, honest conversations are a critical tool to guide their decisions.—
Jonas Barck,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Smart, agile, able to pick things up quickly — a sample of the impressions that stuck with Bolton.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
21 June 2025
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For the rest of her styling, Gomez wore a black gown with velvet bow detailing and an elegant French bob, proving that lilac goes with pretty much anything.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
30 June 2025
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Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be regarded as a living thing.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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That includes creating a native AI finance organization that is nimble, deeply integrated with the business, and has AI at its core.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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But here’s the catch: the fossil fuel industry still gets many subsidies, while the more nimble clean energy sector, which is growing faster and creating more jobs, would be left to fend for itself.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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In 1923, the handsome thirty-one-year-old movie star Wallace Reid died from morphine and alcohol addiction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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All the Hamrick brothers are handsome, though in slightly different ways, like dogs born in different litters to the same purebred parents.—
David Sedaris,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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All accommodations come with thoughtful touches like elevated mini-bar fare, Bellino fine linens, and plush, jewel-toned furniture.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
21 June 2025
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That’s all fine and good, suggesting several key improvements to the series’ comeback edition last year, some of them addressing pretty common complaints.—
Jason Kirk,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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The drawings, which likely took hundreds of hours of hard work to create, are beautiful and almost majestic in their respect.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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From humpback and killer whales to sea otters and sea lions, seeing these majestic creatures frolicking in their natural habitats is thrilling.—
Sharael Kolberg,
Travel + Leisure,
15 June 2025
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Hawkins misplaced horns and spikes, and some of his robust four-legged dinosaurs were actually gracile bipeds.—
Yannic Rack,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Aug. 2023
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More generally, humans as a whole have become more gracile over the last 10,000 years.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
26 Mar. 2012
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Miley Cyrus delivers a fashion statement with her lithe, feather dress and long, black leather gloves in Paris on June 18.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
24 June 2025
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On the palate, the wine has splendid depth and width, just as its Cabernet Sauvignon offspring so often does in Napa; the difference is a lightness of touch here, an aerial grace, and a lithe ease of line to the tannins; the acidity remains tenderly supportive.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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“Graceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graceful. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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