anemic

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Recent Examples on the Web The week kicks off with figures on Sunday expected to show that China’s consumer inflation continued to limp along at an anemic 0.6% in September, while declines in factory-gate prices deepened. Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024 Now, however, anemic funding has put the center’s mission at risk. Caitlin Rivers, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024 Cash is dwindling, plane production is anemic and the stock is heading for its worst annual performance since the financial crisis in 2008. Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024 Denver Post reporters Parker Gabriel and Ryan McFadden are joined by columnist Troy Renck to break down the Broncos’ 0-2 start and what’s hurting the team’s anemic offense so far this season. Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for anemic 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anemic
Adjective
  • Grayson’s prose is as inspiring as her book’s titular call for a bloodless revolution.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • So many bloodless words with two tender ones in the middle, like a still warm corpse in a storm.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Black people make up about 14% of the U.S. population but are three times more likely to face hunger than white people, according to the Agriculture Department.
    Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Sugar and other ingredients in Halloween treats can cast a sickly spell on the trillions of microorganisms that reside in your gut, collectively known as the gut microbiome.
    Christopher Damman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The same sickly rainbow sheen goes across his eye and then hers.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • During a visit in August with two Times reporters, Mr. Perez’s skin was sallow.
    Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • An awkward, sallow, provincial, minor army officer, Napoleon, was irresistibly drawn to Joséphine, attracted by her proximity to the most powerful men in France.
    Anne Higonnet, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023

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