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Recent Examples of Synonyms for light-fingered
Adjective
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SpaceX is the implied template: Musk will advocate for privatizing the government, outsourcing the affairs of state to nimble entrepreneurs and adroit technologists.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2024 -
Naturally, Moore is formidable, acing an English accent and exhibiting an adroit sense of comic timing.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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The album’s ever-present pedal-steel guitar comes courtesy of J.R. Bohannon, whose dexterous playing throughout Send a Prayer My Way recalls Lloyd Green’s and JayDee Maness’ invaluable contributions to the Byrds’ beloved Sweetheart of the Rodeo.—
Abigail Covington,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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Then there was her dexterous ability at playing two pianos at once.—
Gail Mitchell,
Billboard,
20 Feb. 2025
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But more careful scrutiny reveals that Rubens made deft alterations to Titian’s composition.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Emerging from personal turmoil, the album is another deft narrative turn for Isbell.—
Ryan Leas,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Then a blue bug does an acrobatic dance around a twisted plant stem and balances above it on his hands.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
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While Wilds doesn't reprise the acrobatic wirebugs and monster-riding mechanics of 2021's Monster Hunter Rise, its fights feel better than ever with a new focus mode.—
James Perkins Mastromarino,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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With a pliant Congress, Trump is using his office to benefit his family’s business interests, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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For all the talk and research that has gone into exploiting graphene’s pliant properties for use in wearable and flexible electronics, most of the polymer composites it has been mixed with to date have been on the hard and inflexible side.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Dec. 2016
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“Light-fingered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/light-fingered. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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