1
as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
the lithe blade of a fencing foil
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2
as in graceful
moving easily
lithe dancers glided across the stage
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3
as in slender
having a noticeably small amount of body fat
she has the lithe, sinewy body of a distance runner
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Recent Examples of lithe
Absolutely delicious mid palate with melt-in-your-mouth tannins, lithe acidity and elegant flavors that include soy, balsamic, red plums, prunes, figs and melted chocolate.
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Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
The plot itself fades into the background, but Theron’s fight scenes sear into the memory banks, both lithe and reckless, gloriously choreographed yet sloppily unpredictable.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Feb. 2025
Katherine was Langdon’s requisite lithe love interest in The Lost Symbol (the third book/first TV series), as the sister of Robert’s mentor.
—Emily Heller, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Twigs’s vocals mutate between guttural and lithe, and her melodies tend to cut against the insistent grooves of the production.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
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Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
The plot itself fades into the background, but Theron’s fight scenes sear into the memory banks, both lithe and reckless, gloriously choreographed yet sloppily unpredictable.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Feb. 2025
Katherine was Langdon’s requisite lithe love interest in The Lost Symbol (the third book/first TV series), as the sister of Robert’s mentor.
—Emily Heller, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Twigs’s vocals mutate between guttural and lithe, and her melodies tend to cut against the insistent grooves of the production.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lithe
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FineReader's screen capture utility, called ABBYY Screenshot Reader, remains the most effective and flexible way to extract text from anything visible in Windows.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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Want a new career that’s higher-paying, more flexible or fulfilling?—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
30 Apr. 2025
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France is a culture of manners, of eloquence, of graceful behavior, as if life itself, from the grandly public to the intimately domestic, were essentially performative, requiring constant self-control.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Originally built in 1895, the residence sits on more than three acres and includes a formal garden, a tranquil reflecting pond, and a graceful limestone-domed gazebo.—
Zlata Kozul Naumovski,
Architectural Digest,
25 Apr. 2025
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The borer is essentially a narrow drill that extracts a slender core from a living tree without killing it.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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For his slender frame (6-foot-1, 181 pounds), his timed speed is below average and could force teams to look elsewhere.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Just who was this willowy blond from Iowa City, Iowa?—
Gia Kourlas,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 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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By staying ahead of these challenges and embracing new security strategies, businesses can ensure their networks are secure today and—at the same time—are agile enough to handle whatever the future may hold.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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This centralized and hierarchical decision-making is incompatible with the desire for speed and a rapid trial-and-error approach, called agile development, as is practiced in Silicon Valley.—
MICHAEL BROWN,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Keep scrolling to shop more skinny jeans, blazers, and button-down shirts inspired by Kate Middleton’s outfit blueprint below.—
Averi Baudler,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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These cars, with their skinny tires up front, skeletal body and explosive engine, generate up to 11,000 to 12,000 horsepower and reach speeds in the mid-300 mphs in just 1,000 feet and require parachutes to safely arrive at a stop.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Apr. 2025
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Using tweezers, remove the stickers from the plastic backing of the seeds or beads.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
24 Apr. 2025
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The wireless charging pad for mobile devices is now capable of 15 W, and the much-disliked capacitive multifunction steering wheel has been replaced by a wheel with plastic buttons.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2025
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The weakness of the Flash 22 is the shoulder straps, which are quite thin.—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
1 May 2025
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And those guesses rely on default templates drawn from overrepresented groups in media and training data: cisgender, white, able-bodied, thin.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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“Lithe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lithe. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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