as in wiry
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Adjective
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Lawrence is like the orange M&M, or the also-orange wiry guy from Inside Out 2.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
3 June 2025 -
In every previous iteration of the play, the wiry, manic Leguizamo has performed the show with his signature motor-mouth energy, fiery personality and chameleon-like talent for creating characters and voices.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 May 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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Just who was this willowy blond from Iowa City, Iowa?—
Gia Kourlas,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Plants can seed readily, so look for sterile varieties such as 'Select Blue', 'Walker’s Low', or 'Cat’s Meow' that won’t become weedy in the garden.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
11 Apr. 2025
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Crabgrass is an annual, weedy, warm-season grass that prefers the hot and dry summer weather over the cool spring and fall temperatures that bluegrass prefers.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The original model walked with a spidery cat-eye that would have been considered bold.—
Leah Prinzivalli,
Allure,
2 Feb. 2025
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With spidery legs and a chunky profile, the module, dubbed Spider, was all function, no form — the ideal machine to land on the moon.—
Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
1 Mar. 2019
Adjective
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And Topo Gigio had a very distinctive voice, high and reedy.—
Dan Shanoff,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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In 2016, after a reedy Canadian professor named Jordan Peterson refused to use gender-neutral pronouns, he was taken up as a folk hero, like Galileo standing firm against the Inquisition.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Reason For The Trash Can Littering the ground in stringy piles were tufts of corn silk and discarded corn husks.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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Two pairs of the 30 toads recently bred and laid thousands of eggs in long, stringy, gelatinous sacs that days later morphed into tiny tadpoles.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The book brings to life characters such as the waspish U.S. Army general Joseph Stilwell and the eccentric U.S. ambassador Patrick Hurley.—
Richard Bernstein,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Oct. 2014
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Among the waspish regulars of the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley cut a relatively docile figure.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
11 May 2022
Adjective
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However, what the study suggests is that this struggle has just gotten leaner and meaner – with a rise of 5.8% in unemployment for new college grads, and similar other harbingers of doom for Gen Z as a labor force.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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By contrast, Ono’s tentative UF contract is notably leaner — and stricter.—
Garrett Shanley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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“Twiggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twiggy. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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