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Recent Examples of anemic
High-risk positions can fall out of favor with investors permanently or experience anemic business results during an economic decline.
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Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
But on Sunday, the pass defense sank, falling into a funk that was also attributable to an anemic pass rush that didn’t record a sack of Lions quarterback Jared Goff.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Whether the preliminary August reading of an anemic 22,000 jobs added to the economy holds true remains to be seen.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
The federal jobs report has revealed anemic growth since the spring, most recently disappointing expectations with a print of just 22,000 jobs in August.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
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Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
But on Sunday, the pass defense sank, falling into a funk that was also attributable to an anemic pass rush that didn’t record a sack of Lions quarterback Jared Goff.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Whether the preliminary August reading of an anemic 22,000 jobs added to the economy holds true remains to be seen.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
The federal jobs report has revealed anemic growth since the spring, most recently disappointing expectations with a print of just 22,000 jobs in August.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anemic
Adjective
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The Fisher Protocol, as it was termed, makes vivid the reality that nuclear war, so often spoken of in the bloodless language of tactics and strategy, is unimaginably horrific.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
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As far as felonies go, the bloodless armed robbery of drug dealers ranks low on the moral-outrage scale—until a victim catches a glimpse of one assailant’s face.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Attendees have been asked to wear red, white or blue to the service.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
20 Sep. 2025
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Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Ryan didn’t waver about his feelings in a follow-up after his sickly outing.—
David Brown,
Twin Cities,
8 Sep. 2025
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Cinematographer James Friend creates a purgatorial realm of disorienting angles and neon lights too sickly to be beautiful, the nightmarishness further underlined by Volker Bertelman’s thundering score.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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During a visit in August with two Times reporters, Mr. Perez’s skin was sallow.—
Aimee Ortiz,
New York Times,
7 Dec. 2023
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An awkward, sallow, provincial, minor army officer, Napoleon, was irresistibly drawn to Joséphine, attracted by her proximity to the most powerful men in France.—
Anne Higonnet,
Vogue,
17 Nov. 2023
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“Anemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anemic. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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