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Recent Examples of wiry
Nini’s shorter, wiry tail is almost always down.
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Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Either way, the large, wiry flame control is designed for easy adjustment, even with puffy ski gloves on.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
Kudus is wiry and full of tricks.
—Jay Harris, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Smith’s wiry, experimental headpiece was constructed to coordinate with his custom three-piece suited look courtesy of Ozwald Boateng.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
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Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Either way, the large, wiry flame control is designed for easy adjustment, even with puffy ski gloves on.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
Kudus is wiry and full of tricks.
—Jay Harris, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Smith’s wiry, experimental headpiece was constructed to coordinate with his custom three-piece suited look courtesy of Ozwald Boateng.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiry
Adjective
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Directed by Troma co-founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, the original Toxic Avenger centers around Melvin (Mark Torgl), a scrawny and awkward teenager who works as custodian at a local gym and is quite literally bullied straight into a frothing barrel of toxic waste.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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On an unremarkable clay tennis court in the Spanish city of Alicante, watched on by only a handful of spectators, two teenagers swipe the ball to one another with surprising vigor, belying their scrawny, adolescent frames.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025
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Stardust Racers, the sinewy roller coaster that towers over Epic Universe, shoots bodies through the sky at more than 60 miles an hour and plunges them toward the surface of the Earth from the height of a 10-story building.—
Bianca Bosker,
The Atlantic,
14 Sep. 2025
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Occasionally, Brown, who makes mesmerizing, lovelorn music under the name Nourished by Time, is a serenader reaching for the style of Jodeci or SWV—sinewy, solicitous, but alien underneath the ad-libbing.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2025
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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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Created by Tom Scutt, the space draws inspiration from the design of McQueen’s fall 2025 show, which showcased a striking portal-like, angular structure cutting through Victorian architecture.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Vitra Fire Station’s sharp, angular concrete planes garnered international acclaim for Hadid, putting her name and architectural style on the global map.—
Mae Hamilton,
AFAR Media,
9 Sep. 2025
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All of a sudden, the GTD takes on an entirely different, immediately noticeable character, low and lean and ready to carve through canyons with the best supercars.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Designed to have a slightly more brutalist lean than the chair’s colonial origins, this option is for the maximalist at heart.—
Elissa Suh,
Architectural Digest,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This further shrank the already slender Republican House majority.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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There are several superstar cameos, and they’re nicely integrated into the movie’s slender plot.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Struggling to put on a pair of tight skinny jeans has become a thing of the past.—
Melody Kazel,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
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On a first-and-10 from the UC 34-yard line, Arnold took a shotgun snap and hit receiver Sean Lander on a skinny post for a 34-yard touchdown.—
Clark Fahrenthold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Vogue’s Favorite Gold Necklaces Featured in this article With an endless array of iterations—from thin, barely-there metallic strands to bolder, statement-making chains that instantly command attention—gold chain necklaces are some of the best gold jewelry pieces to add to your collection.—
Samantha Solomon,
Vogue,
18 Sep. 2025
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Maternal health remains under-researched compared to other therapeutic areas, and the pharmaceutical pipeline is thin—just 91 compounds in development, versus thousands for areas like neurology or dermatology.—
Shelley Stewart III,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Wiry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiry. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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