nimble
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But it was helpful to see Knud Adams’ nimble production after it transferred to MCC Theater — an ideal introduction to a startlingly original playwright at the dawn of a path-breaking career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
These smaller, more nimble fast-food competitors have adapted faster to changing consumer habits in the so-called "pizza wars".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Logistics experts on the panel Tuesday said the turmoil has changed how shippers approach supply-chain planning to become more nimble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Having a narrower focus with independent management should make each of the companies more nimble to accelerate growth, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Family lore had it that he possessed unexplained skills and senses, that his nimble hands could spirit away afflictions in both humans and animals.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Increasingly, these families are gaining direct access to these deals through nimbler independent wealth management firms and RIAs, according to Joshua Becker, co-leader of law firm Pillsbury’s Private Client & Family Office practice.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Critics worry that the quieter, nimbler drones will be used to surveil the public with little oversight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
Cars will be smaller, nimbler and more environmentally friendly.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
He entered office in 2017 offering voters a vision of a nimbler, more entrepreneurial France that would pay for its cherished welfare state through faster economic growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Behind them stood their mounts, Arabian stallions—faster than dust devils and nimbler than Athena’s thimble.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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And his vocal runs in a song like “Keith Whitley,” titled after the late country singer, have an appealing gruffness even at their nimblest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
He’d recently founded Talk magazine with the editor Tina Brown, then New York’s nimblest puppeteer of high and low culture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
Gardner has long been considered both one of the nimblest Republican politicians and also one of the most vulnerable.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
Even your best telecasts somehow find a way to make the nimblest dancers stumble in some way or another.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2017
Rajesh had once been the most promising of the brothers—the nimblest, the supplest, the most charismatic, the most energetic, the most beloved and idolized by my father and his family.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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