nimble
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Writing like this ensures that “Diarra From Detroit” remains nimble from start to finish of each episode.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
Supporters of the reform say it would create nimble police forces that are more easily held accountable and staffed by locals who know the terrain.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Such neuronal “pruning” and refining typically occurs at key junctures—think toddlerhood and puberty—suggesting that a leaner brain may be more nimble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Worsley shouted to Shackleton that their best hope now lay in separating; he was having trouble keeping the nimble Dudley Docker back with the other two boats.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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But Austrian startup CycloTech says it can make aircraft even nimbler with its motors -- shaped like an open cylinder with the sides made up of several wing-shaped blades.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 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
A deal would help Estée Lauder and Puig compete with their larger, nimbler French rival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
In fact, for the past few decades, the civilian sector of the economy has been far nimbler and more innovative than Pentagon-funded initiatives, so — don’t be surprised — military spinoffs have greatly diminished.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
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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