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Recent Examples of wiry
Speaking of texture, gone are the days of wiry metal setups that actually kind of hurt to sit on—or leave patterns on the backs of your thighs.
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Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 29 May 2026
The thin, wiry stems climb by twining to cover a trellis, arbor, or fence.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 May 2026
Flowers bloom late spring to early summer atop wiry, branched, nearly leafless stems rising to 24 inches tall above an 18-inch-tall clump of deep green leaves.
—Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
My hair was getting wiry and unruly.
—Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 11 May 2026
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Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 29 May 2026
The thin, wiry stems climb by twining to cover a trellis, arbor, or fence.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 May 2026
Flowers bloom late spring to early summer atop wiry, branched, nearly leafless stems rising to 24 inches tall above an 18-inch-tall clump of deep green leaves.
—Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
My hair was getting wiry and unruly.
—Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiry
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And who can say for sure whether twilight is the arrival of some dark night or the coming of the dawn, or whether a scrawny boy’s shoulder blades might really be the nubs of angel wings, or where, if anywhere, any of us will find new life.—
Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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In a Broadway season notable for the strength of its musical revivals, there has been some concern that the best new musical Tony Award category might be particularly scrawny this year.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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Theron, meanwhile, hurls herself into the sinewy action sequences that have increasingly been her home turf over the past two decades, flinging herself down hills and into rivers and navigating some precarious rock-climbing terrain.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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That brisk storytelling economy is a good fit for Theron’s own terse, sinewy performance style.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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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The cups also feature a more angular design, visibly protruding rather than gradually curving.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
31 May 2026
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On the opposite side, the Passion façade is stark, angular and unsettling by comparison, telling a very different part of the Christian story in a completely different visual language.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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But despite Louisiana's ruby red political lean, the president's endorsement alone may not have been enough to ensure Cassidy's defeat - until the state changed its election rules.—
Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
30 May 2026
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Preliminary evidence suggests that weight regained after stopping a GLP-1 treatment is more likely to come back as fat than as lean mass.—
Bethany Brookshire,
Scientific American,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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Then came last year’s The Most Dear and The Future, a slender collection of tracks that straddled a line between pop, ambient, folk, and dance with an air of rustic mysticism that seemed to travel through music circles like gossip bursting from localized containment.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
2 June 2026
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Within a year of his Vitali Daraselia Cup breakthrough, the slender winger made his Dinamo debut.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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But his own journey was not easy; at eight, he was rejected by the Croatian club Hajduk Split for being too skinny and too short.—
Sanat Pai Raikar,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 June 2026
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This wide-leg style has a high-rise, straight-leg fit, perfect for complementing a skinny belt and a polished top, such as a collared shirt or a silk shirt.—
Irene Richardson,
InStyle,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Said was clean-shaven, with close-cropped, graying hair and thin, rectangular glasses.—
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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Expect body hair to thin, disappear, Alpinize.—
Sandra Cisneros,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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“Wiry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiry. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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