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Recent Examples of anemic
Employers added 227,000 jobs in November as the labor market rebounded from anemic growth in the prior month, when hurricanes and labor disputes dampened hiring.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
From the macro side, continuing loose monetary policy amid anemic growth should also provide a tailwind for Bitcoin and cryptoassets in 2025.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters across the U.S. last weekend after its debut in Cannes and pulled in an anemic $1.6 million in its first weekend.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
The defense made a play early against Baltimore, but the anemic offense and poor punt return coverage performance let the Ravens score early anyway.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
From the macro side, continuing loose monetary policy amid anemic growth should also provide a tailwind for Bitcoin and cryptoassets in 2025.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters across the U.S. last weekend after its debut in Cannes and pulled in an anemic $1.6 million in its first weekend.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
The defense made a play early against Baltimore, but the anemic offense and poor punt return coverage performance let the Ravens score early anyway.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anemic
Adjective
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Look no further than Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ bloodless spiking of an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris in the name of greater objectivity.J.T. Barbarese, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
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The stunning fall of the Syrian government early Sunday — a bloodless coup by Islamist rebels that ended the brutal 50-year rule of the Bashar Assad regime — has been reverberating across the global film community.Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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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
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Chapman had a sickly husband and took in foster girls to help pay the bills.Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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The massive four-story brownstone is the sickly shade of green mold, except in the places the façade has chipped off completely.Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2024
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During a visit in August with two Times reporters, Mr. Perez’s skin was sallow.Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
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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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“Anemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anemic. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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