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silken

adjective as in sleek

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She is a supremely balanced runner with a galloping stride, a silken swerve and the daring to put them to use on the biggest stage.

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Times have changed and the New Hollywood brings a more robust tone and more overt interaction to its effusive interpretation compared with the silken and playful Slatkin and crew, who were all Russian-trained players.

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Soon after, I then discovered silken tofu, and I’d like to now consider myself a tofu fan.

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The part that got her in trouble was when she called out the silken dishonesty of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's press secretary at the time.

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Lane’s silken vocals are decorated by strings and hand percussion on “What’s on My Mind,” a reckoning of the ways that possessing both good and bad feelings make you whole.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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