floppy
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“On paper, people have said, you know, you’re a guy in an indie rock band who does stand-up and has floppy hair, you’re technically a cool guy,” Thomas said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A trans-Atlantic celebrity since the ’60s, Hockney cut a dandyish figure with rakish touches such as floppy bow ties, scarves, caps and pocket squares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
As Betty Boop became more popular, Natwick revised his design to swap the character’s floppy dog’s ears for bangle earrings and shrinking her nose.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
On the day Preston died, at around 18:25, paramedic Simon Crabb was outside the ambulance bay and saw Varley running with a "floppy" baby in his arms, and told him the child was not breathing.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
And just like that, the girl in the red coat and floppy hat was no longer a target.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Or 5.25-inch floppies, like some of the DOS versions did.
From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2022
Microsoft, which had glad-handed Netscape and bundled everything and then some onto its Windows and Office floppies, needed an insurance protection against a Department of Justice that was to the company’s dark competitive arts.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 9, 2013
The other day, I found some floppies left me by a friend a decade dead – letters, poems – and realised that I no longer had a drive or a programme that could read them.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011
He is "old school" and likes the idea that you can still label and catalogue floppies like paper based files.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010
Don't worry; after Debian is finished with those two floppies, it will find your CD-ROM with no trouble.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
Still, the scenes themselves play out floppier than you’d expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Celery works, too — the stalks will be floppier, but can still elevate your sauces and soups.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
After multiple jumps from each pole, the squirrels were challenged with a much thinner, floppier steel beam.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 5, 2021
Ms. Isenberg said the Japanese began making floppier toys in the 1970s and 1980s, and Korean manufacturers stepped in with soft-fabric production in the 1980s.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
She grew more unwieldy and larger and floppier, a misfortune she attributed to some mysterious malady which she never named, but gloated over with the pride the poor have in their diseases.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
It’s a middle-of-the-spectrum, Goldilocks option — not the firmest or the floppiest, neither the silkiest nor the craggiest, but it will slide comfortably on the boards, which have been playing on the slow side.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
While NBC gives precious little airtime to the phenomenon, limiting us to brief post-race glimpses, I've compiled Rio de Janeiro’s floppiest jowls into a non-stop, minute-long flop-fest: all jowls, all the time.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2016
"They said you were the floppiest flopper they ever saw," I told him.
From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
