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Recent Examples of spidery
The spidery lines of the reassembled pane are a careful worker’s diary of its destruction and reconstruction — and not a bad metaphor for the arc of Korean history in the 20th century.
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Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
O’Rourke’s chronic medical issues followed a chaotic route — sick, then sicker, then OK, then much sicker, then somewhat better — with spidery little paths radiating outward.
—Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
During this rain-heavy time, the falls go from a spidery trickle to a powerful force of nature that plunges off the cliffs toward the earth.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2021
The painting uses architectural drawings of the Mogamma to create a spidery abstract grid with occasional shards of color that maps the building’s haphazard past.
—Tobias Grey, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
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Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
O’Rourke’s chronic medical issues followed a chaotic route — sick, then sicker, then OK, then much sicker, then somewhat better — with spidery little paths radiating outward.
—Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
During this rain-heavy time, the falls go from a spidery trickle to a powerful force of nature that plunges off the cliffs toward the earth.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2021
The painting uses architectural drawings of the Mogamma to create a spidery abstract grid with occasional shards of color that maps the building’s haphazard past.
—Tobias Grey, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spidery
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The crew also included a taxi driver from Brooklyn, a Dartmouth College student, and a wiry fisherman and seal hunter with endless stories of peril at sea.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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The wiry 6-foot-4, 203-pound Sasaki went 30-15 with a 2.02 ERA in 69 games over four seasons in Japan, striking out 524 and walking 91 in 414 ⅔ innings.Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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From the high point of the Walker Basin Trail, echoes of the area’s ranching history linger in bits of barbed wire, stock tanks and weedy livestock tracks.Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Some lawns have large weedy areas; remove and add new sod or plugs. 9.Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
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In a photo Estrada used to announce a reward for his capture, Wedding had long, stringy hair that seemed to be thinning, steely blue eyes, and a beard.Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
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Finally, dingy, discolored, or stringy towels need to get the heave-ho.Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2025
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Michelle Troconis, the 49-year-old Venezuelan socialite who was convicted on Friday for conspiracy to commit murder, is tall, willowy, and as beautiful as a newscaster.Rich Cohen, airmail.news, 2 Mar. 2024
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Kidman, who’s nearly six feet tall, impossibly willowy, and the precise shade of a scoop of vanilla ice cream, has never been an Everywoman.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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Chalamet sulks and talks out of the side of his mouth, picking from a grab bag of accents that vary with each scene—all of which are far more reedy and cartoonish than Dylan actually sounded in his younger days.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
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He was guided through the motions of the fry station by a reedy, goateed young man, an actual employee, who had been caught up in the candidate’s maudlin cosplay of worker solidarity.E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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The book brings to life characters such as the waspish U.S. Army general Joseph Stilwell and the eccentric U.S. ambassador Patrick Hurley.Richard Bernstein, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2014
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Among the waspish regulars of the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley cut a relatively docile figure.New York Times, New York Times, 11 May 2022
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Woody spice notes compliment a solid structural backbone with firm tannin and racy acidity.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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The actor, 43, revealed that his racy Netflix Christmas movie The Merry Gentlemen, which features plenty of shirtless dancing, has an even saucier cut while speaking with Interview magazine.Chiara Kim, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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The faux leather exterior is sleek and practical for this time of year, while the inside has a thin fleece lining to keep you warm.Nicol Natale, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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From pencil thin brows to cool-toned smokey eyes, all the cool girls are channeling that iconic vintage supermodel aesthetic.Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Spidery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spidery. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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