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Recent Examples of wiry
Given his wiry 5-foot-10 frame, and naturally below-average bat speed, he’s never had much margin for error or inefficiency in his hitting mechanics.
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
Lawrence is like the orange M&M, or the also-orange wiry guy from Inside Out 2.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 June 2025
In every previous iteration of the play, the wiry, manic Leguizamo has performed the show with his signature motor-mouth energy, fiery personality and chameleon-like talent for creating characters and voices.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025
The doctor, a short and wiry Iranian man in his 50s, stared into my throat with a flashlight and listened to my lungs.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 9 May 2025
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
Lawrence is like the orange M&M, or the also-orange wiry guy from Inside Out 2.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 June 2025
In every previous iteration of the play, the wiry, manic Leguizamo has performed the show with his signature motor-mouth energy, fiery personality and chameleon-like talent for creating characters and voices.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025
The doctor, a short and wiry Iranian man in his 50s, stared into my throat with a flashlight and listened to my lungs.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiry
Adjective
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Whereas his father is macho and courageous, Hiccup comes across scrawny and sensitive.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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The new film follows Hiccup (Mason Thames), a young and scrawny Viking boy who refuses to follow his tribe’s tradition of hunting dragons.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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The infected familiar from the original virus strain are now sinewy figures wandering the land, feral and naked, their clothes having disintegrated long ago.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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Walter, whose polyphonic sensibility first charmed me in Beautiful Ruins, has here made something salty, sinewy, and satisfying from fairly tough material.—
Emily Temple
May 27,
Literary Hub,
27 May 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
Adjective
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After years of languishing in the second tier of luxury automakers, the company was revamping itself with a fresh, angular look revealed for the first time on the Evoq concept car at the 1999 Detroit Auto Show.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
15 July 2025
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Key features: 7x magnification, objective lens diameter of 50mm, angular field of view 6.8 degrees, eye-relief 13mm.—
Kat Bayly,
Space.com,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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The two groups lost a similar percentage of lean muscle mass.1 Notably, in the semaglutide group, being older, female, and consuming less protein at the start of the study were all associated with the greatest losses in lean mass.—
Simon Spichak,
Health,
18 July 2025
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In lean Laguna Woods, the city council made six extra lump sum payments to erase its unfunded pension liabilities since 2017.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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Anya Taylor-Joy, imperiously slender and with devouring eyes, has a porcelain haughtiness that doesn’t quite work as Emma Woodhouse — at least not for me.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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Those garments included curvaceous jackets with jodhpurs and slender gowns cut from both light-absorbing velvet and light reflecting satin. At Chanel, meanwhile, the dark hue was used for military suits in nubby tweeds.—
Ari Stark,
Footwear News,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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Nothing fires up Google’s algorithm quite like talk of the return of skinny jeans, but for fall/winter 2025 designers are conspiring to relaunch another dormant Noughties trend: slouchy boho boots that puddle around the ankles and fold over the calves.—
Emma Spedding,
Vogue,
24 July 2025
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Many have been quick to draw a connective throughline between the revival of trends like skinny jeans and bandage dress with the increasing accessibility of Ozempic and other GLP-1 injectables.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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Light cushioning maximizes comfort and support in the arch of your foot, while keeping its thin profile.—
Lauren Breedlove,
Travel + Leisure,
24 July 2025
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Armstrong provides another veteran depth option to vie for a roster spot in a position group that’s already thin and now ailing.—
David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
24 July 2025
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“Wiry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiry. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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