meek
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Few animated movies are willing to venture beyond meek, kid-friendly entertainment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
By transforming Parks into a meek, accidental activist whose only deficit was physical fatigue, the dominant cultural narrative effectively stripped her of her radicalism.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
There’s a single-panel comic by the artist Paul Noth that pokes fun at researchers’ meek attempts.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
Unable to move his feet, he could only offer a meek prod at Webster.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
The voice on the other end was meek, kind.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
First, riverbank lupine snuck into the garden on a mislabeled seed package, swamping meeker plants.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
But the evening quickly becomes awkward, as the incorrigible alpha male Lucas teases and pokes at the meeker Adam, making unreasonable demands on him and Eva until Adam finally breaks and spills some embarrassing secrets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Ron is a gigantic goof who either doesn't read body language well or ignores it entirely, overpowering the smaller, meeker Marcus with his gigantic personality and boundless acts of kindness.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021
It is a much meeker role — and exactly the right fit for Canada.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015
It is half a schoolmaster and makes the people softer, meeker, more modest, and more reasonable.
From Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history by Just, Gustav
The 2020 high school football season has ended in West Virginia with the meekest of whimpers.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
I witnessed her open her eyes and says in the meekest whisper of a voice: “I want to get off this merry-go-round. I want to go home.”
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2020
The lead Heather is fat-positive, the henchman is genderqueer, and the meekest member is a black lesbian.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2019
Jack appears in just one photograph, in which his son has captured him at his meekest.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
It had long seemed a curious contradiction to Palmer, that among the three kids rollicking on the field, Henry was the tallest yet also the meekest.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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