limp
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The choreographer asked her costume designer, Robert Perdziola, to dress her dancers in a variety of looks, with flouncy tutus for the women in her first movement and limp, longer skirts in the others.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
It conjures something overly marinated, vaguely limp, sitting in the back of a deli case.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
"All my childhood I had a limp," Phoebe said.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Woods walks with a limp after suffering extensive damage to his right leg and ankle from a near-fatal single-car crash in Rancho Palos Verdes in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
She sagged as if all her spirit had bled out, and Kasusu dropped from her limp fingers.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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