as in healthy
enjoying health and vigor
every able-bodied young man in the village had been sent off to fight in the war
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Recent Examples of able-bodied
As with Leyva's great-grandmother, many were enslaved not as able-bodied adults but as children.
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Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie said sentiment within the GOP conference was favorable to tightening eligibility requirements, conditioning work on able-bodied people and equalizing payments for the Medicaid expansion population.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
The dictations began to coalesce into essays that combined tales of his former, able-bodied life with unvarnished assessments of his medical and mental conditions.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
For an able-bodied performer like Wang, this leaves the right hand free to take on the job of cuing the trumpets, trombone, tuba and flute who enter into an array of precariously delicate partnerships.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie said sentiment within the GOP conference was favorable to tightening eligibility requirements, conditioning work on able-bodied people and equalizing payments for the Medicaid expansion population.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
The dictations began to coalesce into essays that combined tales of his former, able-bodied life with unvarnished assessments of his medical and mental conditions.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
For an able-bodied performer like Wang, this leaves the right hand free to take on the job of cuing the trumpets, trombone, tuba and flute who enter into an array of precariously delicate partnerships.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for able-bodied
Adjective
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Located outside the hurricane belt, the island has more dive-friendly days, clear visibility, and healthy marine life.—
Curaçao Tourist Board,
AFAR Media,
26 Feb. 2025
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This offers a new tool for medicine and healthy aging interventions and leverages the power of large-scale protein analysis to provide a more accurate measure of an individual's biological age than chronological age.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Crockpots are still made well, as are, in my experience anyway, the more modernized version: Instant Pots.—
Parker Hall,
WIRED,
2 Feb. 2025
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The witch’s magic is still MIA, but her attitude is well and truly back.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Perhaps not, but Ukraine seeks robust security guarantees from its Western partners and the capacity to defend itself in the future, should Russia decide to invade again.—
Keith Gessen,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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For that reason, WOAH recommends robust testing to rule out silent spread of the disease.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The additional accessories include two cloth liners, a sturdy lame with a wooden handle, four spare lame blades and a blade cover.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Among albums, Four Symbols is the sturdiest winner.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Able-bodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/able-bodied. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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