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Recent Examples of wiry
The wiry and intense physicality that Benesch brought to her role as a newbie schoolteacher in The Teachers’ Lounge — a kind of frankness and presence that’s evident too in her mostly deskbound role in September 5 — finds new depths in her Late Shift performance.
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Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
He’s got some wiry strength and power with room to fill out and add lean muscle mass to a very rangy frame.
—Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
The knock on the No. 5 pick from 2021 was whether his wiry frame and lack of explosive straight-line speed would hold him back from top-six NHL success.
—Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
In the studio in Manhattan, the lights went down, and Prieto settled in next to one of his sound mixers, a wiry man named Rich Bologna.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
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Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
He’s got some wiry strength and power with room to fill out and add lean muscle mass to a very rangy frame.
—Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
The knock on the No. 5 pick from 2021 was whether his wiry frame and lack of explosive straight-line speed would hold him back from top-six NHL success.
—Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
In the studio in Manhattan, the lights went down, and Prieto settled in next to one of his sound mixers, a wiry man named Rich Bologna.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiry
Adjective
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And there’s almost no one in town who wouldn’t take that offering, except this scrawny dude.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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As the Ratliff's scrawny, shy Lochlan, Nivola navigates some stormy waters, especially his character's disquieting relationships with siblings Saxon and Piper.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Think Zaha Hadid, known for her futuristic, sinewy forms that seem to defy structural logic (see, for example, the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan).—
Nick Remsen,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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One longs for the sinewy action of a Transformers flick, or the imaginative gravity of something like the first Pacific Rim.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 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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In The Acolyte, his tectonically angular face is framed by long emo-boy hair that totally works, especially because his performance gives just a hint of peak Tony Leung: aloof and a bit of a weirdo yet utterly charming and definitely dangerous.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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This hybrid of The Wizard of Oz and The Lord of the Rings expands a digital game board into a hallucinogenic place where everything — including inhabitants — is cubic, angular but soft.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With between-the-tackles runner Ray Davis on the roster for the next three seasons, a pass-catching presence would be the likely lean if the Bills do take one.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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The modern paleo diet includes foods such fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The three super skinny pen tips can go from creating impossibly slender, seemingly real brow strokes to a cluster of freckles across the cheeks much like a stamp.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
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But Cummings prefers to mail the slender tubes back to Crown Bees, which will care for them over the winter.—
Martha Ann Overland,
NPR,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Here are the shoes to wear with skinny jeans to look chic in Spring 2025.—
Renata Joffre,
Glamour,
19 Apr. 2025
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Martinis are flowing and skinny French fries are arriving on small plates.—
Kailyn Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Ibrahim had black hair and looked thin from malnutrition.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Wiry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiry. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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