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Recent Examples of wiry
Whereas both Stiller and Scott are wiry and shipshape in their appearance, Erickson was stubbly and dressed in baggy jeans and Blundstones—the standard uniform of the rumpled screenwriter.
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Ned Griffen has obsessively covered state high school football since the mid-nineties, back when Dan Orlovsky was just a wiry teenager at Shelton High School.
—Ned Griffen, Hartford Courant, 16 Dec. 2024
In the summer, spider plants produce small white flowers and rafts of baby spider plants on long, wiry stalks that trail from the plant.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024
Stowell, who is wiry and energetic, came up and embraced Wilson.
—Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Ned Griffen has obsessively covered state high school football since the mid-nineties, back when Dan Orlovsky was just a wiry teenager at Shelton High School.
—Ned Griffen, Hartford Courant, 16 Dec. 2024
In the summer, spider plants produce small white flowers and rafts of baby spider plants on long, wiry stalks that trail from the plant.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024
Stowell, who is wiry and energetic, came up and embraced Wilson.
—Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiry
Adjective
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The stray was scrawny, short-haired, and had a scratched and scarred nose.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Proctor was a scrawny 12-year-old surfing Malibu’s Second Point in the mid-1980s when Miod paddled up and introduced himself.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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No doubt Aston Martin hoped the shade, which adds a bit of metallic flake to the bright hue, would pop in photos—but to my eye, the brilliance actually results in many of the more sleek and sinewy details getting blown out.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
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Colvin, a sinewy former high-school wrestler whose rounded silver eyeglasses give him a scholarly mien, was plenty intrigued.—
Brendan I. Koerner,
WIRED,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Mitsouko softened Chypre’s rawboned extremes, imparting a creamy peach glow to the whole.—
Noy Thrupkaew,
Washington Post,
21 Apr. 2021
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Kirschling, a rawboned young man from Wisconsin, had written a master’s thesis at Columbia about long-term productivity decline in New York City’s mass transit.—
William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
2 July 2018
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The angular silhouette of the jacket, juxtaposed with the more fluid pants, reflected an assured sense of corporate power.—
Fernanda Pérez Sánchez,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2025
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Chavarria tells the story of American fashion through a Chicano lens, creating now-distinctive oversize, sculptural silhouettes that pull from various eras of Mexican American style, from sharply angular zoot suits to blue-collar workwear.—
Cat Cardenas,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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When Murdoch sold off the majority of its 21st Century Fox empire to Disney for $71 billion in 2019, the thesis behind that deal was that Fox would be better served as a leaner company.—
Tim Baysinger,
Axios,
13 Feb. 2025
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McKnight observed that 40-year-old Harry otherwise looks tall, lean, fit and in his prime.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Every three months, Ito, a tall and slender 29-year-old Ngäbe man with HIV embarks on a five-hour trek to the town of Pueblo Nuevo to pick up his antiretroviral medication.—
Adam Williams,
NPR,
11 Jan. 2025
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Gi-hun is initially searching for The Recruiter, played by Gong Yoo, a slender figure in a sharp suit that lured people into the game by playing ddakji in the subway.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The year is already off to a stylish start for Frame, which just dropped a new skinny jean release with Gen Z icon Alix Earle.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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Its springy fill and skinny body made for an awkward, if not uncomfortable, side sleep.—
Molly Higgins,
WIRED,
1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Truong makes a strong case for it and goes minimal with thin French tips and daisies peeking out on the corners of each nail for singer Ella Mai.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
18 Feb. 2025
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Draft experts agree that this incoming quarterback class is somewhat thin and certainly top-heavy.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Wiry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiry. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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