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Adjective
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Their lead guitarist — a wiry seventeen-year-old named Bruce Springsteen — already had an assistant to hit his echo pedal on cue.—
Henry Selick,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025 -
For Durant, who entered the league as a wiry 18-year-old after a single season at Texas, Flagg’s learning curve felt familiar.—
Grant Afseth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Spitting Image has delivered a typically waspish response after Deadline revealed this week that the show had been served with a lawsuit by the owners of Paddington Bear.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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But what a response — a performance full of waspish pressing, muscular defending and precise, efficient counters.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Fed by a spring, the shallow and weedy water warmed to create a comfortable fish nursery.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
15 Dec. 2025
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Hand-weeding or applying appropriate herbicides when the weedy plants are young and immature will give you the best results.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
30 Nov. 2025
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“Spindle-shanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindle-shanked. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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