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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

One memorandum from the FBI's legal attache in London, sent two weeks later, noted there were a "number of videos, floppy disks and documentation still to be viewed".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Lu, who has protuberant light brown eyes, small black ears and a floppy tongue, loves to snuggle with her four-legged foster siblings and stretch out in the sun, according to the contest website.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

She patted the big floppy leather bag with her walking-stick.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

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 use a multitude of coloured floppies as a fashion statement, as part of outfits I make.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010

Not all machines can boot directly from the CD-ROM so you may still need to use 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

Rhoda was thinner than ever, and floppier, and took even less pains to be neat.

From The Lee Shore by Dame Rose Macaulay

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