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Adjective
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He’s got a whole team scouring the subway for a tall, lanky, besuited man challenging down-on-their-luck strangers to one-on-one ddakji.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025 -
Paul is in his sixties but has a youthful and bohemian air, with a tall, lanky frame, a ponytail down his back, and the tattoos of past lives along the surface of his arms.—
Rachel Kushner,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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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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His tools are evident: The ability to hang onto the puck under pressure for a rangier player, or split through traffic to handle underneath sticks, the ability to skate and shoot, the pro frame (listed by the Eagles at 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds), etc.—
Scott Wheeler,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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The young defenceman was rangy, wanted desperately to be a beast to play against and offered some mobility.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Her appearances have been accompanied by stylish, noir chic ensembles: a button-up white top and skinny black tie here, a glen plaid gray jacket and slacks there.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Most holes look exactly the same, straightforward with skinny fairways and thick rough.—
Brody Miller,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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These fish also love weedy areas, which can be a challenge to fish with a plug that has two or three treble hooks hanging off the belly.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
5 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Saba, wiry and yet to fill out, is set for a big AAU season in the spring after limited minutes as a freshman on junior varsity.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
29 Jan. 2025
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The place is filled with wiry fighters reeking of Tiger Balm and sweat.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Two dense clusters of the spindly florals become a bikini-tie top, worn with an open-front catsuit that looks like it was drawn directly onto the models body.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
4 Feb. 2025
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Listing photos suggest even the décor is unchanged: spindly furniture, oil paintings, and, in that dining room, the kind of plush fabric wall coverings that entice curious fingertips in the decorative wing of the Met.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
29 July 2024
Adjective
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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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