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Recent Examples of wiry
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.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025
The doctor, a short and wiry Iranian man in his 50s, stared into my throat with a flashlight and listened to my lungs.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 9 May 2025
As Banda escaped, Sasaki raised his wiry frame atop the rail and roared.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
But Colson, a wiry outdoors enthusiast fizzing with energy, has hiked and biked every inch of the island and made a point of recruiting local heroes like Tzavelakos, who teaches diving to hotel guests, and Sotiria Antonopoulou, who leads private tours of Ioulida.
—Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025
The doctor, a short and wiry Iranian man in his 50s, stared into my throat with a flashlight and listened to my lungs.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 9 May 2025
As Banda escaped, Sasaki raised his wiry frame atop the rail and roared.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
But Colson, a wiry outdoors enthusiast fizzing with energy, has hiked and biked every inch of the island and made a point of recruiting local heroes like Tzavelakos, who teaches diving to hotel guests, and Sotiria Antonopoulou, who leads private tours of Ioulida.
—Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiry
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The new film follows Hiccup (Mason Thames), a young and scrawny Viking boy who refuses to follow his tribe’s tradition of hunting dragons.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
14 June 2025
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New Atlas Given their electric underpinnings, scrawny body styles, and retro design cues, Flying Flea's bikes don't appear to be designed for mass appeal.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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Her sinewy voice lends the song an effortlessly cool vibe, one perfect for the warm days ahead.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
9 June 2025
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My legs: muscular during my years of playing varsity soccer and basketball and running track; long and sinewy in my later adult life; milky-pale every winter, yet sunburned often and easily in the summer.—
Laura Neilson,
Vogue,
30 May 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
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Champion’s angular heels and Schwarzenegger’s high-gloss loafers remained central to the look — classic shapes reinterpreted through finish and proportion.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
23 June 2025
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The sculpture features two toy rockers— a horse and a dinosaur — that are split in half and paired unevenly down the middle for an angular Cubist effect.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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What’s rising in the aftermath is a new breed of giving that is leaner, faster, and built on the principles of decentralization, distribution, and data.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Men with aviator glasses and handlebar moustaches, leather jackets, jeans, or flannel walk down the street, lean against storefronts and lampposts.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Nolan Traoré, France An intriguing but very slender point guard, the 6-3 teenager should be a first-rounder.—
Tim Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Lively became mostly famous for, well, being Blake Lively: tall, slender, beautiful, and suspiciously perfect — a patron saint for the Instagram age.—
David Mack,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Jamie has a big head, like a baby, and skinny limbs; his flashes of menace have the horror-movie quality of an evil doll.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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As a departure from the era of plain skinny ties, Lauren's wide, colorful neckties broke the mold, and his company grew from there.—
Diane J. Cho,
People.com,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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But rather than spreading resources thin to cast a wide net that lightly lifts production across the board, policymakers should focus their energy on restoring the production capacity of sectors critical to national security and Americans' health.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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One person shared that while the print side is thin like a typical kitchen towel, the reverse is more plush, like a bath towel, soaking up water easily while doing the dishes.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
People.com,
30 June 2025
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“Wiry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiry. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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