as in graceful
moving easily
the expressive movements of agile dancers agile herons wading in the marsh
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Elizabeth Tapia performed her Crocodile role with agile jumps and pirouettes while a half dozen Fish dancers performed a frisky conga line behind her.
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Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Tregenza’s agile camera connects characters to one another, linking actions in suspenseful chains of causality, and rooting the drama in a sense of locale, both in intimate domestic settings and in mighty, numinous landscapes.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
And, as people age the processes that protect the brain are less agile.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
So that ultimately is the goal to have a company which is focused in important diseases, that is more agile, more competitive, more able to fulfill our promise of bringing new medical technologies and medicines to patients faster.
—Ayesha Javed, TIME, 2 Feb. 2025
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Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Tregenza’s agile camera connects characters to one another, linking actions in suspenseful chains of causality, and rooting the drama in a sense of locale, both in intimate domestic settings and in mighty, numinous landscapes.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
And, as people age the processes that protect the brain are less agile.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
So that ultimately is the goal to have a company which is focused in important diseases, that is more agile, more competitive, more able to fulfill our promise of bringing new medical technologies and medicines to patients faster.
—Ayesha Javed, TIME, 2 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for agile
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“Agile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agile. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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