anemic

Example Sentences

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Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The signs looked performative and anemic and the visual impact was poor.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

The past several years of anemic housing demand called for a strategy shift.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

The most popular streaming series are watched by total audiences so anemic they would have been quickly canceled by television networks in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Mixed with the spin of holographic stars, glimpses of pale faces with red-tonic-lined lips wash by like anemic vampires.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera