as in muscular
having great physical strength, skill, or ability
She had always been athletic, playing multiple sports even as a child.
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Recent Examples of athletic
Since Sonoma State announced its intentions to cut all athletic programs due to major budget trouble, Wells is aiming to shine a light on the issue in hopes of helping save the sports at his alma mater.
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Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Wellesley athletic director and TMC member John Brown said the current proposal is not feasible, but asked for another ‘co-committee’ meeting between members of the TMC and the football committee meeting prior to March.
—Matt Feld, Boston Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
The foundation would be funded by a couple of summer wrestling camps, possibly at Ponderosa and Cherokee Trail, and would award an annual scholarship to fund athletic involvement for a wrestler or athlete who has lost a parent.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2025
Caesars had a historic yet controversial partnership with the Tigers’ athletic department at the time (which called for sports betting advertising across campus).
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
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Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Wellesley athletic director and TMC member John Brown said the current proposal is not feasible, but asked for another ‘co-committee’ meeting between members of the TMC and the football committee meeting prior to March.
—Matt Feld, Boston Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
The foundation would be funded by a couple of summer wrestling camps, possibly at Ponderosa and Cherokee Trail, and would award an annual scholarship to fund athletic involvement for a wrestler or athlete who has lost a parent.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2025
Caesars had a historic yet controversial partnership with the Tigers’ athletic department at the time (which called for sports betting advertising across campus).
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
See all Example Sentences for athletic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for athletic
Adjective
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Akanji was taken off at half-time in the midweek Champions League loss at home to Real Madrid and was replaced by Rico Lewis, with Guardiola confirming at full-time this was due to a muscular problem.—
Sam Lee,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Relatively obscure Thracian art, for all its muscular power and authority, is a sobering reminder of our common fragility.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Carter started three of 11 games, missing time with a wrist injury, but was a healthy scratch throughout the playoffs.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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However, activists concerned with animal rights, the environment, the rights of farmers, and human health are already working to ease the distortions of the subsidy system and align government subsidies with recommendations as to what constitutes a healthy, sustainable diet.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This results in a charge imbalance that builds up an electric field strong enough to trigger flashes of lightning.—
National Geographic,
National Geographic,
13 Jan. 2023
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According to research from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control, strong gun control laws are correlated with fewer gun deaths.—
Elliot Hughes,
Journal Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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It’s got a slim, high-rise fit with a deceptive amount of cargo space that includes tennis ball pockets and side pockets.—
Clint Davis,
People.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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Behind these glittering gems was the idea of a more ethical — and traditional — jewelry path, where creations no longer fit to taste or purpose become part of new ones.—
Lily Templeton,
WWD,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to uncover more details — a process that could soon involve the most powerful observatory ever launched into space.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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His motivation could be to control something very powerful or just to slow down OpenAI in order to allow XAI to improve—seize the new market opportunity—or to break up OpenAI and render his competition obsolete.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Be flexible If your child’s birthday falls on a holiday, flexibility is key.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
17 Feb. 2025
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What’s needed now are more flexible funding schemes and opportunities that will allow Latvian productions to be competitive on the global market.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Athletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/athletic. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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