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Recent Examples of wiry
Walmsley will portray Pat, a wiry, volatile young Westie with a chip on his shoulder, quick to throw punches and eager to prove himself.
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
The wiry face hair and fur is not labrador.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Bindweed is wiry and strong and spreads by seeds, roots, and rhizomes.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
Nini’s shorter, wiry tail is almost always down.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
The wiry face hair and fur is not labrador.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Bindweed is wiry and strong and spreads by seeds, roots, and rhizomes.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
Nini’s shorter, wiry tail is almost always down.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiry
Adjective
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As if to preëmpt her detractors, Burnett often resorted to brutal self-deprecation, describing herself in interviews as scrawny or bucktoothed.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Directed by Troma co-founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, the original Toxic Avenger centers around Melvin (Mark Torgl), a scrawny and awkward teenager who works as custodian at a local gym and is quite literally bullied straight into a frothing barrel of toxic waste.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Stardust Racers, the sinewy roller coaster that towers over Epic Universe, shoots bodies through the sky at more than 60 miles an hour and plunges them toward the surface of the Earth from the height of a 10-story building.—
Bianca Bosker,
The Atlantic,
14 Sep. 2025
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Occasionally, Brown, who makes mesmerizing, lovelorn music under the name Nourished by Time, is a serenader reaching for the style of Jodeci or SWV—sinewy, solicitous, but alien underneath the ad-libbing.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Mitsouko softened Chypre’s rawboned extremes, imparting a creamy peach glow to the whole.—
Noy Thrupkaew,
Washington Post,
21 Apr. 2021
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Kirschling, a rawboned young man from Wisconsin, had written a master’s thesis at Columbia about long-term productivity decline in New York City’s mass transit.—
William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
2 July 2018
Adjective
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Nestled behind walls and a double interlocking iron gate, the blocky and angular structure offers a total of six bedrooms and seven baths in 11,800 square feet on three levels accented throughout with travertine and skylights.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
29 Sep. 2025
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The temperature map of the cosmic microwave background can be broken up into different components, some of which occupy large angular scales in the sky, and some of which occupy small angular scales, as well as everything in-between.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Eating a heart-healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, and lean proteins is one way to mitigate the risk of heart disease.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2025
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Chicken breast is a good source of lean protein.—
Lindsey DeSoto,
Health,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Chives Use these slender green leaves well into football season with a fall planting.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
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Ostrich dinosaurs walked on two long, slender hind legs and had a long neck with a small head, similar to modern ostriches, experts said.—
Lauren Liebhaber
September 22,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But does Hegseth want the best generals, or just the best skinny ones?—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Guayabero River knifefish have skinny, elongated bodies reaching just over 7 inches in length, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Batteries without the filter lost power quickly, while batteries with the atom-thin filter retained almost all their capacity for more than 150 charge-discharge cycles.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Wiry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiry. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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