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Over the course of four minutes, the robot fumbled with the towel’s floppy and unwieldy shape as it slowly smoothed out the fabric, located the corners and lined up the edges.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Stephen, who’d just earned his degree in computer science, built a digital inventory tracking system for Mavis shops, run on green-screen computers and floppy disks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

It is no bigger than a fingertip, but has comically large antennae - which Hughes likens to "big floppy ears".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Nancy reached down to scratch Chocolate Chip behind her floppy little ears.

From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene

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

I buy about 100,000 floppies per year as I have a business that makes them into drinks mats, fridge magnets and toast racks.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010

If your system supports booting from a CD-ROM, you don't need any floppies.

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