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Adjective
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Musk’s image in Silicon Valley was useful to the Trump campaign, bringing in new fanboy voters and sending a message that the administration would transform the government and run it like a lean start-up.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
2 Apr. 2025 -
Keep in mind, too, that once your body begins to build lean muscle mass, which occurs mainly from strength training, your resting metabolic rate will increase.—
Melanie Radzicki McManus,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With their lanky legs and slender necks, sandhill cranes stand roughly three to four feet tall.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Since the crescent moon is both very slender after the new moon and visible for only a short period in the west above the sunset, it may be sighted on Sunday, March 30, but more likely on Monday, March 31.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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It’s designed with a deep V-neckline, six-button front, and ribbed trim.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Odenkirk, by contrast, is trim and fit and dressed sharply, with a black-and-red Chicago Cubs cap atop his head.—
Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Just who was this willowy blond from Iowa City, Iowa?—
Gia Kourlas,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Only two bodies remain still: Ferran’s, in one corner of the platform, and that of a young man (Jabez Sykes) diagonally across from her, tall and willowy and pale — two statues that seem moonlit while the rest of the world writhes and sweats around them.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The TikTok comments were replete with speculation that the friends may have even been skinny dipping—though Horton declined to confirm this.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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After what feels like years of obsessing over eyebrow trends (skinny, perfectly bushy, bleached) to treatments like lamination and microblading, learning to love the unruly swirls that appear in our brows just feels right.—
Dulce Moncada,
Glamour,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.—
Cory Martin,
Verywell Health,
16 Oct. 2024
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Differences in Adult Bones That being said, some adults are bonier than others.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
3 Nov. 2023
Adjective
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Right tackle Garrett DiGiorgio, now a relatively svelte 320 pounds, reported losing 11 pounds of fat and gaining seven pounds of muscle.—
Iliana Limón Romero,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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The slender abode is a svelte 10-feet wide (and 60-feet long).—
Sabrina Moreno,
Axios,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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My path to Atkins protein purity — and a new, lithe body — was frequently sabotaged by my growing addiction to sugary cereals, weed, and booze.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2025
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The lithe, 6-foot sophomore out of Kansas City, Mo., misfired on 17 of his first 21 attempts from beyond the arc this season, averaging just 7.9 points per game through late December while the Rammies sputtered to a 5-5 start.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Clean-limbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clean-limbed. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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