rangy
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The improvement is the product of key offseason additions such as former defensive player of the year Marcus Smart and the rangy 6-foot-7 Jake LaRavia, but even Doncic has stepped up his defensive game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Hawke’s rangy crusader happens to be a magnet for that type of trouble.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
Sing is probably the best kicker in the Red Roses squad, striking the ball prodigous distances, and is a rangy runner with a powerful hand-off.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025
Scoring three minutes after coming on is a dream impact for any substitute, which is what the rangy Polvara did.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
He continued to fade, fade, easy, easy, stalling until he could spot The Goober, tall and rangy, downfield where he’d be waiting if he had managed to elude the safety- man.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
But that absence forced a concentrated listening, or at least forbade a distracted one, which proved useful during some of the night’s rangier moments.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Bogaerts seems likely to play shortstop for the Padres, who can move Kim to second and Cronenworth to first to give them one of the rangier infields in baseball.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
A dwarf sport of the larger and rangier ‘Baggesen’s Gold’, ‘Twiggy’ brightens shady parts of the garden, where the foliage will be bright chartreuse.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
But if Reynolds can provide a rangier target, that gives LaFleur, play-caller McVay and, most important, Goff more options.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2017
Like his horse, this man was a giant in stature, but rangier, not so heavily built.
From The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border by Zane Grey
Bol Bol is nearly half a foot shorter than his father was, but, at 7-feet-2-inches tall, he’s still one of the league’s rangiest players.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2020
At 25, Mr. Westman, a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, is not only the rangiest, but also the youngest of the Hamiltons I have seen.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018
Lawrence Timmons, SteelersArguably the rangiest inside linebacker in the NFL, Timmons broke out with 135 tackles, 11 passes defenses, three forced fumbles, and three sacks.
From Newsweek ● Jan. 19, 2011
In fact, she describes the song as "vocally the rangiest piece we did; the text is so enigmatic and strange."
From Reuters ● Apr. 16, 2010
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